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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... sense of the term , conventions are conspicuous features of subject matter , form , or technique which occur repeatedly in works of lit- erature . Conventions in this sense may be recurrent types of character , turns of plot , forms of ...
... sense of the term , conventions are conspicuous features of subject matter , form , or technique which occur repeatedly in works of lit- erature . Conventions in this sense may be recurrent types of character , turns of plot , forms of ...
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... sense includes the analysis of such matters as the work's genre , component elements , structure , theme , and effects ( see criticism ) . The term hermeneutics originally designated the formulation of princi- ples of interpretation ...
... sense includes the analysis of such matters as the work's genre , component elements , structure , theme , and effects ( see criticism ) . The term hermeneutics originally designated the formulation of princi- ples of interpretation ...
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... sense transference " or " sense analogy " ) is this passage from Shelley's " The Sensitive Plant " ( 1820 ) : And the hyacinth purple , and white , and blue , Which flung from its bells a sweet peal anew Of music so delicate , soft ...
... sense transference " or " sense analogy " ) is this passage from Shelley's " The Sensitive Plant " ( 1820 ) : And the hyacinth purple , and white , and blue , Which flung from its bells a sweet peal anew Of music so delicate , soft ...
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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