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A new handbook of literary terms
By Mikics, David
- ISBN
- 978-0-30010-636-7
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2007
Offering more commentary than that found in standard literary dictionaries, this portable, easily read, abridged literary dictionary restricts its selections to those terms that Mikics (English, Univ. of Houston;The Limits of Moralizing: Pathos and Subjectivity in Spenser and Milton ) believes are "crucial" for students to know. He also includes personal opinion along with snippets of literary criticism to clarify a definition. For "grotesque," for example, he states that "In Plato'sSymposium , the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
