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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... 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 on philosophy's relation to literature; Fredric ...
... William Empson's Some Versions of Pastoral . Curtius's European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages remains the essential guide to the topoi that engage medieval and Renaissance literature . These fourteen books , some of them ...
... William Flesch, Dien Ho, Jen- nifer Lewin, Lewis J. Mikics, Steven Monte, Ricki Moskowitz, and Edward Schiffer. And, most of all, Katy Heinlein. A NEW HANDBOOK OF LITERARY TERMS A abject , abjection xi Acknowledgments.
... William Spanos , " Boundary 2 : 3 ( Spring 1975 ) , 509–48 . Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd ( 1961 ) is a very useful overview . accommodation In theology , the practice of describing the ineffable attri- butes of God in ...
... William Burroughs. Characteristically, aleatory art involves the kind of random events produced through a set of rules, rather than mere raw spontaneity: Burroughs used the technique of cut-ups (scraps of text collated with arbitrary ...