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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... constitute com- plete words ; others , however , occur only as parts of words . For example the noun " grace " is a word that is a single morpheme . If we prefix to the root element , " grace , " the morpheme " dis- , " it becomes a ...
... constitute com- plete words ; others , however , occur only as parts of words . For example the noun " grace " is a word that is a single morpheme . If we prefix to the root element , " grace , " the morpheme " dis- , " it becomes a ...
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... constitute the " manifest " content of a dream or work of literature ; the unconscious wishes that find a semblance of satisfaction in this distorted form are the " latent " content . Also present in the unconscious of every individual ...
... constitute the " manifest " content of a dream or work of literature ; the unconscious wishes that find a semblance of satisfaction in this distorted form are the " latent " content . Also present in the unconscious of every individual ...
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... constitute a liter- ary text are said to be " naturalized " in the activity of reading , in that the artifices of a nonreferential " textuality " are made to seem vraisemblable ( credible ) —that is , made to give the illusion of ...
... constitute a liter- ary text are said to be " naturalized " in the activity of reading , in that the artifices of a nonreferential " textuality " are made to seem vraisemblable ( credible ) —that is , made to give the illusion of ...
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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