A Glossary of Literary TermsAs in the first edition, this work is organized as a series of succinct essays in the alphabetical order of the title term, but it now includes new essays, many drastically recast essays, and expanded and updated lists of suggested readings. |
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... English Prosody ( 1910 ) , and R. M. Alden , English Verse ( 1930 ) , are well - illustrated treatments of traditional syl- lable - and - stress metrics . For later discussions of this and alternative metric theories see George R ...
... English Prosody ( 1910 ) , and R. M. Alden , English Verse ( 1930 ) , are well - illustrated treatments of traditional syl- lable - and - stress metrics . For later discussions of this and alternative metric theories see George R ...
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... English ( or Anglo - Saxon ) Period Middle English Period The Renaissance 1558-1603 Elizabethan Age 1603-1625 Jacobean Age 1625-1649 Caroline Age 1649-1660 ... English Period . The four and a half centuries PERIODS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE 149.
... English ( or Anglo - Saxon ) Period Middle English Period The Renaissance 1558-1603 Elizabethan Age 1603-1625 Jacobean Age 1625-1649 Caroline Age 1649-1660 ... English Period . The four and a half centuries PERIODS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE 149.
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... English ” —that is , similar to the language we speak and write today . The span from 1100 to 1350 is sometimes discriminated as the Anglo- Norman Period , because the non - Latin literature of that time was written mainly in Anglo ...
... English ” —that is , similar to the language we speak and write today . The span from 1100 to 1350 is sometimes discriminated as the Anglo- Norman Period , because the non - Latin literature of that time was written mainly in Anglo ...
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aesthetic Alexander Pope allegory American analysis applied artistic ballad called characters comedy comic concepts conventions cultural deconstruction Derrida developed discourse distinction diverse drama effect Elizabethan England English epic essays example feminist French genre Greek human I. A. Richards ideology imitation interpretation irony James John Jonathan Culler language lines linguistic literary criticism literary text literature lyric M. H. Abrams Marxist Marxist criticism meaning medieval metaphor meter Milton mode modern moral myths narrative narrator neoclassic Northrop Frye novel object period philosophical play plot poem poetic poetry poets poststructural prose fiction reader reader-response criticism reading reference Renaissance represented rhetorical rhyme Robert Romantic satire semiotic sense Shakespeare's signify social sonnet speech stanza story stress structuralist structure style T. S. Eliot term theory Thomas tion traditional tragedy utterance verbal verse W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden W. K. Wimsatt William words writers written