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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Page 112
... major departures from this stress - and - syllable meter will be described at the end . We attend , in reading verse , to the individual line , which is a sequence of words printed as a separate entity on the page . The meter is ...
... major departures from this stress - and - syllable meter will be described at the end . We attend , in reading verse , to the individual line , which is a sequence of words printed as a separate entity on the page . The meter is ...
Page 144
... major wars in marking significant changes in literature . This tendency , as the American scholar Cushing Strout has remarked , “ suggests that there is an order in American political history more visible and com- pelling than that ...
... major wars in marking significant changes in literature . This tendency , as the American scholar Cushing Strout has remarked , “ suggests that there is an order in American political history more visible and com- pelling than that ...
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... major American novelist , was well launched ; and William Cullen Bryant and Edgar Allan Poe wrote poetry that was relatively independent of English pre- cursors . In the year 1760 was published the first of a long series of slave nar ...
... major American novelist , was well launched ; and William Cullen Bryant and Edgar Allan Poe wrote poetry that was relatively independent of English pre- cursors . In the year 1760 was published the first of a long series of slave nar ...
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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