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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... narrative thread , or a shift to a different group of characters ( as well as , often , an intermission ) . The plays of Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists are usually divided into five acts . Gorboduc ( 1565 ) is an early ...
... narratives suggest emotions that are “presented in their objects and contemplated as a pattern of knowl- edge.” Here Wimsatt and Beardsley return to an Aristotelian emphasis on how emotions are produced in an audience by means of ...
... narrative . German Romanticism characteristically opposed the allegorical to the symbolic , and preferred the symbol . For a writer like Goethe , the critic Tzve- tan Todorov writes , " Allegory is transitive , symbols are intransitive ...
... narrative action are characteristic of the ballad. Ballads practice the art of “leaping and lingering”: sudden transi- tions to climactic moments, along with a resonant dwelling on certain unfor- gettable scenes. They set in motion the ...
... narration , proof , and peroration ) . He discusses chap- ters with a “ cadence ” ending : instances where the impressions of a character at the conclusion of a chapter " become a metaphor for the relation between man and world , a ...