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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... social philosophy , the ideal is the simple and " natural " forms of social and political order in place of the anxieties and frustrations engendered by a complex and highly developed social organiza- tion ; in milieu , a primitivist ...
... social philosophy , the ideal is the simple and " natural " forms of social and political order in place of the anxieties and frustrations engendered by a complex and highly developed social organiza- tion ; in milieu , a primitivist ...
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... social , rational , and moral perfection . ( See Enlightenment . ) Primitivism is as old as humanity's recorded thought and imaginings , and is reflected in the myths of a vanished age of gold and a lost Garden of Eden . It achieved a ...
... social , rational , and moral perfection . ( See Enlightenment . ) Primitivism is as old as humanity's recorded thought and imaginings , and is reflected in the myths of a vanished age of gold and a lost Garden of Eden . It achieved a ...
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... social world . A further claim is that , in the present era of capi- talist economic organization that emerged during the eighteenth century , the reigning ideology incorporates the interests of the dominant and exploitative class , the ...
... social world . A further claim is that , in the present era of capi- talist economic organization that emerged during the eighteenth century , the reigning ideology incorporates the interests of the dominant and exploitative class , the ...
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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