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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... interest—especially when clarified by an apt, flavorsome example (amoe- bean song, multum in parvo). I have given room to a few entries dealing with non-Western literature, but the majority of the terms in this book stem from the ...
... interest in logic , mathematics , and science . ( For an extreme , and im- mensely influential , example of the analytic approach that chooses logic over ordinary language , see A. J. Ayer's Language , Truth , and Logic [ 1936 ] ...
... interest in a punishing blankness . assonance The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds , usually to cre- ate a melodious , lulling effect . Here are some lines from " August " by Alger- non Charles Swinburne ( 1837-1909 ) ...
... interest in Irish folklore was tempered by an emphasis on current soci- ety . Early inspirations for the Celtic revival were Ernest Renan's The Poetry of the Celtic Races ( 1854 ) , Matthew Arnold's On the Study of Celtic Literature ...
... interest in strict form attempts to compen- sate for , a preceding era of political disorder and disunity , the religious wars that plagued England and the Continent . Seventeenth - century classicism , ac- cording to Barzun , occupied ...