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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... reference both to the Bible and to sec- ular writings obscures important differences in the two applications . The ... reference to , an author in the work of other authors ; the frequent reference to an author within the discourse of a ...
... reference both to the Bible and to sec- ular writings obscures important differences in the two applications . The ... reference to , an author in the work of other authors ; the frequent reference to an author within the discourse of a ...
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... reference not only to the general norms of language , but also to all evidence , whether internal or external to the text , concerning " relevant aspects in the author's outlook " or " horizon . " Relevant external references include ...
... reference not only to the general norms of language , but also to all evidence , whether internal or external to the text , concerning " relevant aspects in the author's outlook " or " horizon . " Relevant external references include ...
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... references , one literal and the second allegorical , in which the allegorical or emblematic reference of the rose is made determinate by its role within the literal narrative . Blake's rose is a rose — yet it is patently also something ...
... references , one literal and the second allegorical , in which the allegorical or emblematic reference of the rose is made determinate by its role within the literal narrative . Blake's rose is a rose — yet it is patently also something ...
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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