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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... literary terms / David Mikics p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-300-10636-7 (alk. paper) 1. Literature—Terminology—Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Criticism—Terminology—Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Title. PN41 ...
... 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. I have tried to offer enjoyable lore, in addition to the ...
... criticism. The critics cited most often here are the ones who have contributed most to our consciousness, and who have most actively redefined their fields of study. These include Erich Auerbach and Ernst Robert Curtius on literary ...
... criticism in his book , which continues to be central to literary study fifty years after it was written . A student who wants a sure grounding in literary history , and at the same time an exhilarat- ing experience of criticism at the ...
... criticism, formal- ism, New Criticism, close reading, hermeneutics, phenomenology, Marxist criticism, psychoanalytic criticism, structuralism, reception theory, reader- response criticism, deconstruction, différance, logocentrism ...