A New Handbook of Literary TermsYale University Press, 1 okt 2008 - 368 pagina's A New Handbook of Literary Terms offers a lively, informative guide to words and concepts that every student of literature needs to know. Mikics’s definitions are essayistic, witty, learned, and always a pleasure to read. They sketch the derivation and history of each term, including especially lucid explanations of verse forms and providing a firm sense of literary periods and movements from classicism to postmodernism. The Handbook also supplies a helpful map to the intricate and at times confusing terrain of literary theory at the beginning of the twenty-first century: the author has designated a series of terms, from New Criticism to queer theory, that serves as a concise but thorough introduction to recent developments in literary study. Mikics’s Handbook is ideal for classroom use at all levels, from freshman to graduate. Instructors can assign individual entries, many of which are well-shaped essays in their own right. Useful bibliographical suggestions are given at the end of most entries. The Handbook’s enjoyable style and thoughtful perspective will encourage students to browse and learn more. Every reader of literature will want to own this compact, delightfully written guide. |
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... contrast, tend to be more straightforward. Prudentius's Psychomachia(“soul-battle”) (ca. ) is a striking example of allegory, featuring characters like “swelling Wrath, showing her teeth with rage and foaming at the mouth” and ...
... following: What is an ac- tion? What is naming? How does memorizing differ from learning, or from recognizing? By contrast, a continental philosopher might focus on the his- 16 ANAPEST tory of a concept in philosophical tradition: Geist.
... contrast. The distance between Greek and Roman wisdom and our latter-day experience can instead be seen as a genuine debate, an intellectual contest. Indeed, the ancients might judge us, and find us lacking. (Incidentally, the word ...
... contrast between opposing ideas, often reinforced by parallel syntax. An example, from the King James Bible: “The ... contrast, the fact that God's word re- mains in scripture, cited generation after generation. W. B. Yeats expounds the ...
... contrast to the craftsmanlike notion of literary imitation championed by that sturdy maker of poems and plays, Ben Jon- son, Shakespeare's contemporary. In a practical and genial way, Jonson describes the method of poetic creation ...