A New Handbook of Literary Terms - Brossura

Mikics, David

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ISBN 10: 0300164319 ISBN 13: 9780300164312

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2010

Riassunto

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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Informazioni sull?autore

David Mikics is professor of English at the University of Houston. He is the author of several books, including Who Was Jacques Derrida?, The Limits of Moralizing, and The Romance of Individualism in Emerson and Nietzsche. He lives in Houston.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0300164319
• ISBN 13: 9780300164312
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 348
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile