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...Reader's Guide to Literary Terms, by Karl Beckson and Arthur Ganz. With scholarship and scholars' wit, the authors offer all one cares to know and possibly a bit more about Anacreontic, Transferred Epithets, Inscape, Parnassianism, Pastorals, Passion Plays or Pastiche...
...Reader's Guide to Literary Terms, by Karl Beckson and Arthur Ganz. With scholarship and scholars' wit, the authors offer all one cares to know and possibly a bit more about Anacreontic, Transferred Epithets, Inscape, Parnassianism, Pastorals, Passion Plays or Pastiche...
...READER'S GUIDE TO LITERARY TERMS (230 pp.)-Karl Beckson and Arthur Ganz-Farrar, Strauss & Cudahy...
...further example of a cliché, the authors modestly offer: "Beckson and Ganz, busy as bees, are working like dogs to obtain filthy lucre." Whatever their motive in writing the book, they obviously do not believe in the cliché that one man's opinion on a work of art is as good as the next man's, and they hold that it is easier to judge a work if one commands a set of technical terms...
Trade Terminology. Most of the terms discussed are available in any dictionary or encyclopedia, but Authors Beckson (who teaches English at Fairleigh Dickinson University) and Ganz (who teaches the same at Rutgers) have chosen very lively illustrations for their literary zoology. To explain the IAMB(US), or basic "da DA," of English speech in prose or poetry, they have picked not a respectably well-worn Shakespearean line but A. E. Housman's absurdly memorable