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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 53
Page 90
... interpretation and hermeneutics , below ; compare also affective fallacy . A detailed objection to Wimsatt and Beardsley's original essay is E. D. Hirsch's " Objective Interpretation " ( 1960 ) , reprinted as an appendix to his Validity ...
... interpretation and hermeneutics , below ; compare also affective fallacy . A detailed objection to Wimsatt and Beardsley's original essay is E. D. Hirsch's " Objective Interpretation " ( 1960 ) , reprinted as an appendix to his Validity ...
Page 91
... interpret is to make clear the artistic features and purport of the overall literary work of which language is the medium ; interpretation in this sense includes the analysis of such matters as the work's genre , component elements ...
... interpret is to make clear the artistic features and purport of the overall literary work of which language is the medium ; interpretation in this sense includes the analysis of such matters as the work's genre , component elements ...
Page 96
... interpretation by saying that typology is horizontal , in that it relates items in two texts ( the Old and New Testament ) that are separated in time , while alle- gorical interpretation is vertical , in that it uncovers multiple ...
... interpretation by saying that typology is horizontal , in that it relates items in two texts ( the Old and New Testament ) that are separated in time , while alle- gorical interpretation is vertical , in that it uncovers multiple ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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