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 120
... sometimes forbidden , subject matters . Frequently avant - garde artists represent them- selves as " alienated " from the established order , against which they assert their own autonomy ; a prominent aim is to shock the sensibilities ...
... sometimes forbidden , subject matters . Frequently avant - garde artists represent them- selves as " alienated " from the established order , against which they assert their own autonomy ; a prominent aim is to shock the sensibilities ...
Page 194
... sometimes well - contrived western and adventure stories in the popular magazines . " Stories of character " focus instead on the state of mind and motivation , or on the psychological and moral qualities , of the protagonists . In some ...
... sometimes well - contrived western and adventure stories in the popular magazines . " Stories of character " focus instead on the state of mind and motivation , or on the psychological and moral qualities , of the protagonists . In some ...
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... sometimes wordless cartoons in The New Yorker . In a thoroughly humorous situation , the sources of the fun are very ... sometimes witty , and at almost all other times humorous ; while his actions and speech are some- times ...
... sometimes wordless cartoons in The New Yorker . In a thoroughly humorous situation , the sources of the fun are very ... sometimes witty , and at almost all other times humorous ; while his actions and speech are some- times ...
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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