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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... cultural primitivist asserts that in the mod- ern world , the life , activities , and products of " primitive ” people — who are considered to live in a way more accordant to " nature " because they are iso- lated from civilization ...
... cultural primitivist asserts that in the mod- ern world , the life , activities , and products of " primitive ” people — who are considered to live in a way more accordant to " nature " because they are iso- lated from civilization ...
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... cultural phenomena and their institutions — including the institutions of traditional literary production and study , and even of their own field of cultural study . One prominent tendency is to subvert the hierarchical distinctions ...
... cultural phenomena and their institutions — including the institutions of traditional literary production and study , and even of their own field of cultural study . One prominent tendency is to subvert the hierarchical distinctions ...
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... cultural anthropologist Claude Lévi - Strauss , who analyzed , on Saussure's linguistic model , such cultural phenomena as mythology , kinship relations , and modes of preparing food . See linguistics in literary criticism . In its ...
... cultural anthropologist Claude Lévi - Strauss , who analyzed , on Saussure's linguistic model , such cultural phenomena as mythology , kinship relations , and modes of preparing food . See linguistics in literary criticism . In its ...
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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