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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... poet William Empson defines such complex ambiguity in his Seven Types of Ambiguity ( 1930 ; rev . ed . 1947 ) as ... poetic language ( see NEW CRITICISM ) . Stephen Booth's King Lear , Macbeth , Indefinition , and Tragedy ( 2001 ) is ...
... poetic history " is " indistinguishable from poetic influence , since strong po- ets make that history by misreading one another , so as to clear imaginative space for themselves . " ary Bloom's emphasis is in sharp contrast to the ...
... poetic exclamation , colored by lament or ac- claim : O tempora ! O mores ! ( Oh the times , the manners ! ) , for example ( a tag from Cicero ) , or Hail the conquering hero ! Apostrophe is the Greek word for “ a turning away " : the poet ...
... Poetics, on comedy, remains lost. Aristotle identifies six aspects of tragic poetry, as presented onstage: di- anoia ... poets don't know what they are doing, but merely reproduce the surface of things (as Nickolas Pappas notes, this is ...
... Poetics ( 1957 ) ; Martha Nussbaum , The Fragility of Goodness ( 1982 ) ; Kathy Eden , Po- etic and Legal Fiction in ... poet , of how poems are , and ought to be , constructed — and , implicitly , what a poem is . The Roman poet Horace ...