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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... Criticism—Terminology—Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Title. PN41.M48 2007 803—dc22 2006037905 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability ...
... criticism. The critics cited most often here are the ones who have contributed most to our consciousness, and who have most actively redefined their fields of study. These include Erich Auerbach and Ernst Robert Curtius on literary ...
... criticism can do . Auerbach's Mimesis , first pub- lished in Switzerland in 1946 , is still the indispensable book on realism . Mimesis is referred to repeatedly here , as is Northrop Frye's definitive Anat- omy of Criticism ( 1957 ) ...
... criticism, formal- ism, New Criticism, close reading, hermeneutics, phenomenology, Marxist criticism, psychoanalytic criticism, structuralism, reception theory, reader- response criticism, deconstruction, différance, logocentrism ...
... criticized what they called the affective fallacy : evaluating a literary work by describing the emotions aroused in its ... Criticism ( 1929 ) had outlined some of the untutored subjective responses that a naive reader might have to a ...