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. |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-5 van 49
... kind of book is, to my mind, A Glossary of Literary Terms by M. H. Abrams (recently revised by Abrams and Geoffrey Harpham), a volume that every literature student should possess. A New Handbook of Literary Terms is a competitor as well ...
... kind of random events produced through a set of rules, rather than mere raw spontaneity: Burroughs used the technique of cut-ups (scraps of text collated with arbitrary rigor); Cage threw the I Ching to determine the position of musical ...
... kind of ambiguity . Puttenham cites these lines : “ I sat by my Lady soundly sleeping , / My mistresse lay by me bitterly weeping . " Puttenham comments , quite reasonably , “ No man can tell by this , whether the mistresse or the man ...
... kind of frenzied idolatry , to be classed with other vicious diver- sions like dice playing , maypole dancing , and cosmetics . The antitheatrical argument has two main emphases . One is that the ob- ject of the spectator's gaze is ...
... kind of political and religious authority that Arendt describes , since literary power derives neither from sheer reliance on convention , nor from the violence of powerful effects , nor from rational persuasion . Instead , what speaks ...