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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... poem, as if these were somehow telling for the more educated reader. Wimsatt and Beardsley are less interested than Richards in the feelings provoked in naive readers by a text. They write that “the report of some read- ers . . . that a ...
... poetic history " is " indistinguishable from poetic influence , since strong po- ets make that history by misreading ... poem is within her , she has been found by ( made an author by means of ) works that remain outside her , and that ...
... poems are , and ought to be , constructed — and , implicitly , what a poem is . The Roman poet Horace wrote the best - known ars poetica , around 20 BCE . An ars poetica can be as curt and bristling as Archibald MacLeish's " A poem must ...
... poets. Aureate was later applied to the style of medieval poets like John Lydgate (ca. 1370–1449) and John Gower (ca. 1330–1408). Their follower William Dunbar, in his poem The Goldyn Targe(1508?), wrote of Gower's and Lydgate's ...
... poets , especially the Spaniard Luis de Góngora and the Italian Giambattista Marino , are considered baroque . In English , the writer most often called baroque is the seventeenth - century poet Richard Crashaw , whose poem on the ...