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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... epic on Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece, and Theocritus, a writer of pas- torals from Syracuse, one of the Greek colonies in Sicily (both third century bcE). The terse, splendid Alexandrian poet Callimachus contributed a major ...
... epic romance , The Faerie Queene ( 1590-96 ) ; and Milton echoes Spenser by doing the same in his Nativity Ode ( 1629 ) . The Alexandrine is also the predominant form of French verse , culminating in the heroic oeuvre of Victor Hugo ...
... epic the- ater ” or the “ learning play , ” to Aristotelian ideas . “ The Aristotelian play , ” he wrote , " is essentially static ; its task is to show the world as it is . The learning- play is essentially dynamic ; its task is to ...
... epic. ancients and moderns (battle of the) Machiavelli, in his letters, movingly de- scribes his evening reading of the ancient Romans as an ideal refuge from his long, hard day of political duties in Renaissance Florence. Machiavelli ...
... 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 a verb to the past tense, an archaic ...