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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... song, multum in parvo). I have given room to a few entries dealing with non-Western literature, but the majority of the terms in this book stem from the European tradition. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, edited by ...
... New England puritanism , and their concern with the relation between individual and soci- ety . Matthiessen at times saw in the American Renaissance writers a conflict AMOEBEAN SONG 13 between an Emersonian “will to virtue” and.
... song Features verses sung by two characters in alternation, con- versation-wise; it occurs most often in pastoral poetry. This example fea- tures two shepherds, Perigot and Willye, from Spenser's Shepheardes Calender (1579): PERiGot I ...
... song . For allied forms , see FLYTING ; STICHOMYTHIA ; see also PASTORAL . amor fati In Latin , “ love of [ one's ] fate . " The affectionate embrace of one's own life in all its sufferings and disappointments , as well as its successes ...
... Songs ( 1934 ) . Francis Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads ( 1882–98 ) is a standard collection . ballade Not to ... song ( invoked , for example , in Thomas Gray's " The Bard " ) . On Oss- 36 BAROQUE ian , see Fiona Stafford ...