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 sketchthe 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
- ISBN: 978-0-300-16431-2
- Editorial: Yale University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 368
- Fecha Publicación: 31/03/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés