A Glossary of Literary TermsHarcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1993 - 301 pages As 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 65
... narrator reports or describes and the narrator's own assertions about the world , human life , or the human situation ; the central , or controlling , gener- alizations of the latter sort are said to be the theme or thesis of a work ...
... narrator reports or describes and the narrator's own assertions about the world , human life , or the human situation ; the central , or controlling , gener- alizations of the latter sort are said to be the theme or thesis of a work ...
Page 98
... narrator , in which the teller of the story is a partici- pant in it . Although such a narrator may be neither stupid , credulous , nor demented , he nevertheless manifests a failure of insight , viewing and apprais- ing his own motives ...
... narrator , in which the teller of the story is a partici- pant in it . Although such a narrator may be neither stupid , credulous , nor demented , he nevertheless manifests a failure of insight , viewing and apprais- ing his own motives ...
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... narrator shatters any illusion that he or she is telling something that has actually happened by revealing to the reader that the narration is a work of fictional art , or by flaunting the discrepancies between its patent fictionality ...
... narrator shatters any illusion that he or she is telling something that has actually happened by revealing to the reader that the narration is a work of fictional art , or by flaunting the discrepancies between its patent fictionality ...
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aesthetic Alexander Pope allegory American analysis applied artistic ballad called canon characters comedy comic concepts conventions cultural deconstruction developed discourse distinction diverse drama effect Elizabethan England English epic essays example feminist French genre Greek human I. A. Richards 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 pastoral 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 Shakespeare's signify social sonnet speech stanza story stress structuralist structure style stylistics symbolic T. S. Eliot term theory Thomas tion traditional tragedy utterance verse W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden W. K. Wimsatt William words writers written