A New Handbook of Literary TermsYale University Press, 01/10/2008 - 368 من الصفحات 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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... figure , Godot , who may or may not arrive ; they beguile the time with inventive , desperate , and grotesquely melancholy comic routines . Jerome Rothenberg remarks that the absurd resembles the dream in Sur- realism : it “ serves as ...
... Moses in the wilderness, pro- viding water for the famished Israelites (Exodus 17:6), was thought to pre- figure the “pure river of water of life” in the Book of Revelation (22:1), which 10 ALLITERATION issues from " the throne of God and.
... Figure of Echo ( 1981 ) ; and Eleanor Cook , Against Coer- cion ( 1998 ) . See also ECHO . ambiguity In The Arte of English Poesie ( 1589 ) , George Puttenham identifies a simple kind of ambiguity . Puttenham cites these lines : “ I sat ...
... figure of mythic importance, whether a personality, place, or situation, found in diverse cultures and different histor- ical periods. Among the most familiar archetypes are the quest, the garden or earthly paradise, the youthful hero ...
... figure called homoioteleuton ) . Attic style also rejects the extravagant figures of speech that the sophists relied on ( one sophist , Gor- gias , referred to vultures as " living graves " ) . In Hellenistic and Roman litera- ture ...