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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... Robert Curtius on literary history; Northrop Frye, William Empson, and Frank Kermode on genre; T. S. Eliot on literary tradition; Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, and Helen Vendler on poetry; John Hollander on verse form; Stanley Cavell ...
... Robert Herrick , has his Mistress promise him that , in Elysium , “ Ile bring thee Herrick to Anacreon , / Quaffing his full - crown'd bowles of burning wine . ” For a sparkling evocation of the Anacreontic tradition , see Gordon Braden ...
... Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy ( 1621 ) , which divides its subject into a voluminous and bewildering series of categories . A few years before Bur- ton's exhaustive , fascinating compendium , Shakespeare's character Jacques , in ...
... Robert Graves as “the cruel, capricious, incontinent White Goddess” (Graves, The White Goddess [1948]). Influenced by Graves and by the psychologist C. G. Jung, Northrop Frye authoritatively outlined archetypal criticism in his Anatomy ...
... Robert Herrick wrote his own epitaph in very similar words: “Jocund his muse was, but his life was chaste.” Such a knowing separation of the writer's life from his art remains traditional. (In our own day, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys ...