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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... political interpretation of literary texts " which stands as the " final " or " absolute horizon of all reading and all interpretation . " This last - analysis " political interpretation " of a literary text involves an exposure of the ...
... political interpretation of literary texts " which stands as the " final " or " absolute horizon of all reading and all interpretation . " This last - analysis " political interpretation " of a literary text involves an exposure of the ...
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... political reader of a literary text is to undo these ideological dis- guises and suppressions in order to uncover the historical and political con- flicts and oppressions which are the text's true , although covert or unmen- tioned ...
... political reader of a literary text is to undo these ideological dis- guises and suppressions in order to uncover the historical and political con- flicts and oppressions which are the text's true , although covert or unmen- tioned ...
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... political forces and power - structures that produce , sustain , and propagate the meanings , " truth , " value , and relative status of diverse cultural phenomena and their institutions — including the institutions of traditional ...
... political forces and power - structures that produce , sustain , and propagate the meanings , " truth , " value , and relative status of diverse cultural phenomena and their institutions — including the institutions of traditional ...
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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