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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... imaginative friends—and to benefit from the greatly discerning, and kindly offered, scholarship of strangers as well. A Martha Gano Houstoun Foundation grant made the writing of this book possible. I am grateful to the Houstoun family ...
... imaginative feeling . This feeling then interacts with the impulse on the part of understanding to claim universal status for the object as beautiful . We experience the harmony or “ free play ” of two faculties , imagination and un ...
... radical unexpected- ness of imagination , the way it upsets and disorients ; and he shifts from a promise of future salvation to a bizarre , haunting reminiscence . 1227 AMBIGUITY See Christopher Ricks , Allusion to the Poets.
... imagination and its aspiration to original- ity . See Bloom , The Anxiety of Influence ( 1973 ) , and Bloom , Poetics of Influ- ence , ed . John Hollander ( 1988 ) . aphorism An aphorism is a many - faceted observation : speculative and ...
... quest becomes rep- resentative, expanding our sense of the archetype by embodying it anew. Archetypal reading can lead to some wildly stimulating imaginative iden- ARISTOTELIAN CRITICISM 25 tifications. The wedding of the young, joyous.