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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... languages ) and “ histori- cal " ( the analysis of the evolution of a family of languages , or of changes within a particular language , over a long course of time ) . This latter study of the changes in language over a span of time has ...
... languages ) and “ histori- cal " ( the analysis of the evolution of a family of languages , or of changes within a particular language , over a long course of time ) . This latter study of the changes in language over a span of time has ...
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... language . The imperfect success that a native speaker in one language , such as German , manifests in adapting his habitual pronunciations to the phonemic system of a different language , such as English , is a major feature of what we ...
... language . The imperfect success that a native speaker in one language , such as German , manifests in adapting his habitual pronunciations to the phonemic system of a different language , such as English , is a major feature of what we ...
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... language . Noam Chomsky in Syntactic Structures ( 1951 ) initiated what is known as " generative - transformational grammar . " Chomsky's persistent emphasis is on the central feature he calls " creativity " in language — the fact that ...
... language . Noam Chomsky in Syntactic Structures ( 1951 ) initiated what is known as " generative - transformational grammar . " Chomsky's persistent emphasis is on the central feature he calls " creativity " in language — the fact that ...
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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