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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... genre , or a particular work or author . Applying these two distinc- tions , we get the following species of burlesque . I Varieties of high burlesque : 1 ) A mock epic or mock - heroic poem imitates the elaborate form and ceremonious ...
... genre , or a particular work or author . Applying these two distinc- tions , we get the following species of burlesque . I Varieties of high burlesque : 1 ) A mock epic or mock - heroic poem imitates the elaborate form and ceremonious ...
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... genre ceased to play more than a subordinate role in critical analysis and eval- uation . For the changes in the nineteenth century in the classification and ranking of the genres , see M. H. Abrams , The Mirror and the Lamp ( 1953 ) ...
... genre ceased to play more than a subordinate role in critical analysis and eval- uation . For the changes in the nineteenth century in the classification and ranking of the genres , see M. H. Abrams , The Mirror and the Lamp ( 1953 ) ...
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... Genre ( 1982 ) . For recent developments see Paul Hernadi , Beyond Genre : New Directions in Literary Classification ( 1972 ) ; Alastair Fowler , Kinds of Literature ( 1982 ) ; Adena Rosmarin , The Power of Genre ( 1986 ) . Gothic Novel ...
... Genre ( 1982 ) . For recent developments see Paul Hernadi , Beyond Genre : New Directions in Literary Classification ( 1972 ) ; Alastair Fowler , Kinds of Literature ( 1982 ) ; Adena Rosmarin , The Power of Genre ( 1986 ) . Gothic Novel ...
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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