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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... stanza of his mammoth epic romance , The Faerie Queene ( 1590-96 ) ; and Milton echoes Spenser by doing the same in his Nativity Ode ( 1629 ) . The Alexandrine is also the predominant form of French verse , culminating in the heroic ...
... stanza ( which is frequently , but not always , used in ballads ) is a four - line stanza that rhymes the second and the fourth lines , but not the first and third . The first and third lines have four beats , the second and fourth ...
... stanzas , each ending in a repeated line ( or refrain ) , followed by a four - line stanza ( the “ envoi , ” or send - off ) . The rhyme scheme in this form is ababbcbC , with the envoi rhyming bcbC ( Cis the refrain ) . In fifteenth ...
... Among the most distinguished performers of the blues are Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith, Bukka White, Johnny Shines, Bil- lie Holiday, Bobby “Blue” Bland, and Muddy Waters. 44 BLUE STOCKINGS One common type of blues stanza consists.
... stanza can also be thought of as a kind of expanded couplet whose first line is roughly sketched , or tried out , twice . Important reflections on the blues as a central form of African - American , and therefore American , culture are ...