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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... final shape. I am grateful as well to Phillip King for ex- pert copyediting, and also to Lindsay Toland, at Yale University Press. Rachel Wetzsteon, Jennifer Grotz, and Stephen Burt read the book in manuscript and improved it greatly ...
... final line of each stanza of his mammoth epic romance , The Faerie Queene ( 1590-96 ) ; and Milton echoes Spenser by doing the same in his Nativity Ode ( 1629 ) . The Alexandrine is also the predominant form of French verse ...
... final possibility of metaphor , suggesting a complete union between two terms ( as in Shakespeare's " The Phoenix and the Turtle " ) . As Frye puts it , an- ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY agogic metaphor is “ pure and potentially total.
... final works , with their stark and attentive interest in a punishing blankness . assonance The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds , usually to cre- ate a melodious , lulling effect . Here are some lines from " August " by ...
... final ; not a means to an end , but an end in itself . ( Other critics of the era like William Empson and Ken- neth Burke stood at the opposite end of the spectrum , construing literary works as instrumental : as arguments for a ...