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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... Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590–96). Spenser's Britomart is an adolescent girl dressed in the armor of a male knight, a disguise that allegorizes the militant, almost magical power of her chastity. At one point she comes upon a statue ...
... Spenser's Shepheardes Calender (1579): PERiGot I saw the bouncing Bellibone, WillyE hey ho Bonibell PERiGot Tripping ouer the dale alone, WillyEs he can trippe it very well: PERiGot Well decked in a frock of gray, WillyE hey ho gray is ...
... Spenser's use of wight (for man) in his epic The Faerie Queene, a locution that already sounded antiquated and “poetically” strange when the poem was published in the 1590s. Spenser and, at times, Milton also use the prefix y- to change ...
... Spenser in Bk . 1 of The Faerie Queene ( 1590 ) gives a memorable example : the list of trees that cluster in his ... Spenser's precarious hero , Red Crosse , who is already lost in the wood . Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass ( 1855-92 ) ...
... Spenser's wondrous Faerie Queene ( 1590-96 ) . Don Quixote ( 1605–15 ) , by Miguel de Cervantes , depends on , cherishes , and subverts the conventions of the genre . Chivalric romance is readily parodied . Walter Scott did so with love ...