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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... comedy, humanism, tragedy. These words govern our sense of what literature is like, and they are best defined from an individual critic's point of view. I have pursued a personal voice, not devoid of humor—and the occasional wisecrack ...
... comedy, remains lost. Aristotle identifies six aspects of tragic poetry, as presented onstage: di- anoia (thought—by which he may have meant commentary or moralizing delivered by the characters), melos (music), opsis (spectacle), mythos ...
... comedy of humors ( see COMEDY ) . See also FABLE . Beats The Beats , or Beat writers , were a group of Americans , bohemian in appearance and manner , who saw themselves as misfits , wanderers , outlaws , and exiles from respectable ...
... Comedy ( ca. 1308–21 ) ; Petrarch's goes by the name Laura , the elusive star of his Rime Sparse ( Scat- tered Rhymes , 1374 ) . Shakespeare's sonnets are occupied , or possessed , by two enigmatic beloveds , an aristocratic “ young man ...
... , closure has become the latter - day substitute for what the Bible refers to as peace , or rest . The association be- tween stopping and resting goes back almost to the beginning . The Hebrew 62 COMEDY verb sbt means to stop : as when.