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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... Theories ” in Doing Things with Texts : Essays in Criticism and Critical Theory ( 1989 ) . On types of critical approaches , refer also to René Wellek and Austin Warren , Theory of Literature ( rev . , 1970 ) . Histories of criticism ...
... Theories ” in Doing Things with Texts : Essays in Criticism and Critical Theory ( 1989 ) . On types of critical approaches , refer also to René Wellek and Austin Warren , Theory of Literature ( rev . , 1970 ) . Histories of criticism ...
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... theory . Since Plato and Aristotle , discourse about poetry or literature has involved " theory , " in the traditional sense of a con- ceptual scheme , or set of principles , distinctions , and categories — sometimes explicit , but ...
... theory . Since Plato and Aristotle , discourse about poetry or literature has involved " theory , " in the traditional sense of a con- ceptual scheme , or set of principles , distinctions , and categories — sometimes explicit , but ...
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... Theory : Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism , 1985 , which includes the initiating essay and a supplementary essay by Knapp and Michaels , together with essays and critiques by Fish , Rorty , E. D. Hirsch , and others . ) The ...
... Theory : Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism , 1985 , which includes the initiating essay and a supplementary essay by Knapp and Michaels , together with essays and critiques by Fish , Rorty , E. D. Hirsch , and others . ) 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