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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... tragedy. These words govern our sense of what literature is like, and they are best defined from an individual critic's point of view. I have pursued a personal voice, not devoid of humor—and the occasional wisecrack. I have tried to ...
... Tragedies ( 1581 ) , secur- ing their importance for Elizabethan playwrights . Horace , in Ars Poetica ( Art of Poetry , ca. 20 BCE ) , another influential work in the Renaissance , remarks that tragedies " should not be produced beyond ...
... Tragedy ( 2001 ) is an intriguing exploration of ambiguity in Shakespeare . American Renaissance The name given to the outpouring of American clas- sics in the 1840s , 1850s , and 1860s by Ralph Waldo Emerson , Henry David Thoreau ...
... tragedy , murders and the like , ought to take place offstage . Similarly , in his Ars Poetica ( Art of Poetry , ca. 20 BCE ) Horace writes : “ Don't let Medea murder the children before the people's gaze , or wicked Atreus cook human ...
... Tragedy from the Spirit of Music ( 1872 ) . Nietzsche associates the Apollonian with the god Apollo , and with the coolness , refinement , and balance of an- cient Greek sculpture and architecture . The Apollonian conception of classi ...