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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... modern inclination toward immanence and disturbing intimacy in art . See Jerome Rothenberg , " A Dialogue on Oral Poetry with William Spanos , " Boundary 2 : 3 ( Spring 1975 ) , 509–48 . Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd ( 1961 ) ...
... modern plays ( those of Chekhov and Ibsen , for example ) tend to have four acts . Still more recently , dramatists have structured their plays as a sequence of scenes , rather than relying on act division ; some dramatists , like ...
... modern discipline , was inaugurated by the German philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten in 1735. Its most influential pro- ponent was Immanuel Kant in his Critique of Judgment ( 1790 ; the " third cri- tique , ” following his ...
... modern industrial society , see Ruskin's beautiful description of medieval craftsmanship , “ The Nature of Gothic ” ( in The Stones of Venice [ 1853 ] ) . The Marxist idea of alienation was a basic con- cept for many social theorists in ...
... modern in our sense probably arrived in the sixth century cE. By 800 Charlemagne's Holy Roman Empire was be- ing referred to as a saeculum modernum: a modern era or rule.) In the twelfth century Bernard of Chartres defended the ...