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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... Characters " ( 1924 ) . ( 2 ) Characters are the persons presented in a dramatic or narrative work , who are interpreted by the reader as being endowed with moral , dispo- sitional , and emotional qualities that are expressed in what ...
... Characters " ( 1924 ) . ( 2 ) Characters are the persons presented in a dramatic or narrative work , who are interpreted by the reader as being endowed with moral , dispo- sitional , and emotional qualities that are expressed in what ...
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... characters who serve merely as functionaries and are not characterized at all , as well as other characters who are left relatively flat : there is no need , in Shakespeare's Henry IV , Part I , for Mistress Quickly to be as globular as ...
... characters who serve merely as functionaries and are not characterized at all , as well as other characters who are left relatively flat : there is no need , in Shakespeare's Henry IV , Part I , for Mistress Quickly to be as globular as ...
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... characters , and style were all ordered in hierarchies , or " levels , " from high through middle to low , and all these had to be matched to one another . Thus comedy must not be mixed with tragedy , and the highest and most serious ...
... characters , and style were all ordered in hierarchies , or " levels , " from high through middle to low , and all these had to be matched to one another . Thus comedy must not be mixed with tragedy , and the highest and most serious ...
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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