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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... expression when what is wanted is preci- sion and particularity of reference . Since William Empson published Seven Types of Ambiguity ( 1930 ) , however , the term has been widely used in criti- cism to identify a poetic device : the ...
... expression when what is wanted is preci- sion and particularity of reference . Since William Empson published Seven Types of Ambiguity ( 1930 ) , however , the term has been widely used in criti- cism to identify a poetic device : the ...
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... expression . Even in such personal lyrics , however , both the character and utterance of the speaker may be shaped by the author in a way that is con- ducive to the desired artistic effect . In a number of lyrics , the speaker is a ...
... expression . Even in such personal lyrics , however , both the character and utterance of the speaker may be shaped by the author in a way that is con- ducive to the desired artistic effect . In a number of lyrics , the speaker is a ...
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... expression . . . of some overpowering emotion , or ruling taste , or feel- ing , the direct indulgence whereof is somehow repressed " ; this repression is imposed by the author's sentiments of " reticence " and " shame " ; the conflict ...
... expression . . . of some overpowering emotion , or ruling taste , or feel- ing , the direct indulgence whereof is somehow repressed " ; this repression is imposed by the author's sentiments of " reticence " and " shame " ; the conflict ...
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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