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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... lyrics " Round the Ragged Rocks the Rude Rascals Ran , " a title that embodies the vigorous , consistent nature of alliteration . allusion When a literary work engages in allusion , it refers to — plays with , makes use of earlier ...
... lyric in The Pursuit of Signs ( 1981 ) . Arcadia A rather rocky region of the Greek Peloponnesus , sparse rather than lush in vegetation : according to literary rumor , populated mostly by shep- herds . Thomas Rosenmeyer reports the ...
... Lyrics of the Renaissance,” in Reuben Brower, ed., Forms of Lyric (1970). authenticity Ovid, the great Roman poet of seduction and adulterous excite- ment, asserted in his Tristia (ca. 9–12 cE), “Believe me, my character is differ- ent ...
... lyric poet's effusions . In classical Roman poetry , Catullus's Lesbia and Propertius's Cynthia ( both first century BCE ) might be based on sheer invention , biographical reality , or something in between . Dante's beloved was Beatrice ...
... lyric poem, often irregular in rhyme scheme. The form is associated with Provençal and Italian poets of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries—and most of all with two great four- teenth-century Italian authors, Petrarch and Dante, who ...