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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... example of five - act structure in the English the- ater . The five - act division was adopted in Elizabethan drama in imitation of the Roman philosopher and playwright Seneca the Younger ( ca. 4 BCE − 65 AESTHETICISM 3 CE ) , whose ...
... example. In the early twentieth century, the discoveries achieved by Sigmund Freud and by writers like Guillaume Apollinaire suggested that the fullest revelation of the self might come in el- liptical, oblique fragments, snatches of ...
... battle between good and evil . As James Wood remarks , " Alle- gory wants us to know that it is being allegorical . It is always saying : watch me , I mean something . " ALLEGORY 9 Probably the most familiar example of allegory is.
... example, and the tin woodsman the industrial future.) Two of the oldest alle- gorical ideas are the ship of state and the body politic, both going back to Greek and Roman traditions. In Shakespeare's Coriolanus a character makes use of ...
... example fea- tures two shepherds, Perigot and Willye, from Spenser's Shepheardes Calender (1579): PERiGot I saw the bouncing Bellibone, WillyE hey ho Bonibell PERiGot Tripping ouer the dale alone, WillyEs he can trippe it very well ...