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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... ancient exam- ple of authorial agon occurs in Aristophanes' comic drama The Frogs (405 bcE) when Aeschylus debates Euripides, each trying to prove that he is the better dramatist. 6 ALEATORY aleatory From Latin alea, a dice game; by.
... contemplation of my travels , in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness . " In the twentieth century , Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism ( 1957 ) sup- ANCIENTS AND MODERNS (BATTLE OF THE) 17 plied an encyclopedic.
... ancients and the moderns (in French, la querelle des anciens et des modernes) was reinaugurated. John Dryden's dialogue An Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668) begins with a de- bate over whether the ancient or the modern poets are superior ...
... ( ancient ) bee . Swift credits the moderns with “ a large vein of wrangling and satire ” : the poison of the spider . But the ancients enjoy , according to Swift , a better advantage , the product of " infinite labour , and search , and ...
... ancient painter Apelles , frustrated at his inability to paint the foam on the lips of Alexander the Great's horse , threw his brush at the canvas and inadvertently made this masterful detail . As with the abstract expressionists , so ...