A New Handbook of Literary TermsYale University Press, 01.10.2008 - 368 Seiten 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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... sense of current trends that is informed by a greater knowledge of what lies behind them. Historical per- spective is an essential part of this handbook, as I explain below. My goal was to write a portable, persuasive account that would ...
... sense of what criticism can do . Auerbach's Mimesis , first pub- lished in Switzerland in 1946 , is still the indispensable book on realism . Mimesis is referred to repeatedly here , as is Northrop Frye's definitive Anat- omy of ...
... sense that human existence remains inherently absurd , supremely challenging in its apparent meaninglessness , is significant to certain twenti- eth - century writers and philosophers : Franz Kafka , Albert Camus , Jean - Paul Sartre ...
... sense , to allude to something is simply to mention it , usually obliquely or off - handedly . ) Christopher Ricks defines allusion as “ the calling into play . . . of the words and phrases of previous writers . ” A source , Ricks ...
... sense of these words cannot be detached from the texts that invoke them most memorably : the works of Plato , Aristotle , Nietzsche , Heidegger , and others . The analytic philosopher is at times willing to discard tradition and start ...