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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... usually divided into five acts. Gorboduc( ) is an early example of five-act structure in the English theater. The five-act division was adopted in Elizabethan drama in imitation of the Roman philosopher and playwright Seneca the ...
... usually requires. By using aleatory techniques authors hope to abstract their words from the burden of their usual meanings, and also from associations with earlier tradition. As with some other kinds of avant-garde art, aleatory ...
... usually obliquely or off-handedly.) Christopher Ricks defines allusion as “the calling into play . . . of the words and phrases of previous writers.” A source, Ricks continues, “may not be an allusion, for it may not be called into play ...
... usually to create a melodious, lulling effect. Here are some lines from “August” by Algernon Charles Swinburne ( – ): The colour of the leaves was more Like stems of yellow corn that grow Through all the gold June meadow's ...
... usually spoken by a poet-lover who has spent the night with his beloved mistress. (Aubade is French; its Provençal synonym is alba.) So Shakespeare's Romeo (accompanied by Juliet, who responds with her own verses) calls out at once to ...