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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... write a portable, persuasive account that would be helpful to students from freshman to Ph.D. level, as well as those teachers looking to reacquaint themselves with terms and ideas. The great model for this kind of book is, to my mind ...
... write , confuses a work with its re- sult . ( See INTENTIONAL FALLACY . ) Before Wimsatt and Beardsley , I. A. Richards's Practical Criticism ( 1929 ) had outlined some of the untutored subjective responses that a naive reader might ...
... write that “the report of some read- ers . . . that a poem or story induces in them vivid images, intense feelings, or heightened consciousness, is neither anything which can be refuted nor any- thing which it is possible for the ...
... writes , " Allegory is transitive , symbols are intransitive ... the symbol speaks to perception ( along with intellection ) ; the allegory in effect speaks to intellection alone . ” Walter Benjamin combated the romantic bias when he ...
... writes in The Arte of English Poesie ( 1589 ) , “ Sometimes also they sang and played on their pipes for wagers , striving who should get the best game , and be counted cunningest . ” Virgil's seventh eclogue ( 37 BCE ) , with its ...