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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... determinate ( even if in some instances determinately ambiguous , or multiply significant ) , that it remains stable through the passage of time , and that it is in principle reproducible by each competent reader . The author's verbal ...
... determinate ( even if in some instances determinately ambiguous , or multiply significant ) , that it remains stable through the passage of time , and that it is in principle reproducible by each competent reader . The author's verbal ...
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... determinate signification . Derrida's reiter- ated claim is that not only all Western philosophies and theories of language , but all Western uses of language , hence all Western culture , are logocentric ; that is , they are centered ...
... determinate signification . Derrida's reiter- ated claim is that not only all Western philosophies and theories of language , but all Western uses of language , hence all Western culture , are logocentric ; that is , they are centered ...
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... determinate , referential , and logically ordered assertions , which are persistently dispersed by its rhetorical aspect into an open set of non - referential and illogical possibilities . A literary text , then , of inner neces- sity ...
... determinate , referential , and logically ordered assertions , which are persistently dispersed by its rhetorical aspect into an open set of non - referential and illogical possibilities . A literary text , then , of inner neces- sity ...
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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