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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... kind of thing or action is applied to a distinctly different kind of thing or action , without asserting a comparison . For example , if Burns had said " O my love is a red , red rose " he would have uttered , technically speaking , a ...
... kind of thing or action is applied to a distinctly different kind of thing or action , without asserting a comparison . For example , if Burns had said " O my love is a red , red rose " he would have uttered , technically speaking , a ...
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... kind must remain " pure " ( there must , for example , be no “ mixing " of tragedy and comedy ) , and also proposed rules which specified the subject matter , structure , style , and emotional effect proper to each kind . At that time ...
... kind must remain " pure " ( there must , for example , be no “ mixing " of tragedy and comedy ) , and also proposed rules which specified the subject matter , structure , style , and emotional effect proper to each kind . At that time ...
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... kind of " wit " characteristic , in his view , of seventeenth - century metaphysical poets but absent in the romantic poets , which is an " internal equilibrium ” that implies the " recognition , " in dealing with any one kind of ...
... kind of " wit " characteristic , in his view , of seventeenth - century metaphysical poets but absent in the romantic poets , which is an " internal equilibrium ” that implies the " recognition , " in dealing with any one kind of ...
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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