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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... verse forms, feet, and syllables: anceps, catalectic, four- teener. I refer the curious reader to the sources listed under my entry on me- ter. I have emphasized the most important terms, while also allowing the reader to encounter ...
... verse , culminating in the heroic oeuvre of Victor Hugo ( 1802–85 ) ; see Jacques Barzun , An Essay on French Verse ( 1991 ) . See also METER ; SPENSERIAN STANZA . alienation The basic category of Karl Marx's Economic and Philosophical ...
... ; see ASSONANCE . In Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream , Bottom chants a bit of heroic alliterative verse : The raging rocks And shivering shocks Shall break the locks Of prison gates ; And Phibbus ' car Shall shine.
... verse : “ Doom is dark and deeper than any sea - dingle . ” A later poet , John Ashbery ( b . 1927 ) , quoted another Auden line when he named one of his lyrics " Round the Ragged Rocks the Rude Rascals Ran , " a title that embodies the ...
... 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 saw the ...