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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... words for kinds of verse forms, feet, and syllables: anceps, catalectic, four- teener. I refer the curious reader to ... word should be said about my bibliographical suggestions, which appear in many of the entries. I have tried to be as ...
... words agitation and propaganda, agitprop is di- dactic and propagandistic literature such as was produced by the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution of 1917. Leon Trotsky's Literature and Revolu- tion (1924) advocates the use of ...
... words from the burden of their usual meanings, and also from associations with ear- lier tradition. As with some other kinds of avant-garde art, aleatory experi- ments run the risk of being more interesting to the writer than to the ...
... word of the gospel? what does it mean for a word to “grow”?). The fable and the exemplum, by contrast, tend to be more straightforward. Prudentius's Psychomachia(“soul-battle”) (ca. 405 cE) is a striking example of allegory, featuring ...
... words and phrases of previous writers . ” A source , Ricks continues , “ may not be an allusion , for it may not be called into play . ” Joyce's Ulysses ( 1922 ) and Milton's Paradise Lost ( 1667 ) are among the most thickly al- lusive ...