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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... sonnets. The “drab” poets, by contrast, often exhibit a rather harsh, satirical, or epigrammatic manner. The cantankerous and influential critic Yvor Win- ters championed the drab poets of the era in such books as In Defense of Rea- son ...
... sonnets are occupied , or possessed , by two enigmatic beloveds , an aristocratic “ young man ” and a “ dark lady . ” The beloved usually represents a sustained fictive source of poetic inspira- tion , a muse figure , rather than a day ...
... sonnets consist of three quatrains followed by a concluding couplet . From Sonnet 129 : All this the world well knows yet none knows well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell . COUPLET 73 1333 The heroic couplet , by far the.
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