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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... according to a critic's particular assumptions and theoretical orientation ( see criticism ) . as Many neoclassic critics , for example , thought of the form of a work as a combination of component parts , matched to each other according ...
... according to a critic's particular assumptions and theoretical orientation ( see criticism ) . as Many neoclassic critics , for example , thought of the form of a work as a combination of component parts , matched to each other according ...
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... According to this point of view poetry is not primarily a mirror of men in action ; on the contrary , its essential element is the poet's own feelings , while the process of composition , since it is " spontaneous , " is the opposite of ...
... According to this point of view poetry is not primarily a mirror of men in action ; on the contrary , its essential element is the poet's own feelings , while the process of composition , since it is " spontaneous , " is the opposite of ...
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... according to an influential text ( " biblical style , " euphuism ) ; according to a type of use ( " a scientific style , " " journalese " ) ; or according to the distinctive practice of an individual author ( the " Shakespearean " or ...
... according to an influential text ( " biblical style , " euphuism ) ; according to a type of use ( " a scientific style , " " journalese " ) ; or according to the distinctive practice of an individual author ( the " Shakespearean " or ...
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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