M.H. Abrams9780155054523, 0-15-505452-X
Table of contents :
Cover
……Page 1
Copyright page
……Page 6
Preface
……Page 9
How to Use the “Glossary”
……Page 10
Acknowledgments
……Page 13
A Note to the Reader
……Page 15
Contents
……Page 17
Absurd, Literature of the……Page 21
Act and Scene
……Page 22
Aestheticism, or the Aesthetic Movement……Page 23
Alienation Effect……Page 24
Allegory……Page 25
Alliteration
……Page 28
Allusion……Page 29
Ambiguity
……Page 30
Antithesis
……Page 31
Archetypal Criticism
……Page 32
Author and Authorship
……Page 34
Ballad
……Page 38
Bathos and Anticlimax
……Page 40
Beat Writers
……Page 41
Biography
……Page 42
Black Arts Movement
……Page 43
Blank Verse
……Page 44
Bombast
……Page 45
Burlesque
……Page 46
Canon of Literature
……Page 48
Carpe Diem
……Page 51
Character and Characterization
……Page 52
Chivalric Romance (or medieval romance)
……Page 54
Chorus
……Page 55
Chronicle Plays
……Page 56
Cliché
……Page 57
Comedy
……Page 58
Commedia dell’Arte
……Page 61
Conceit
……Page 62
Concrete and Abstract
……Page 63
Concrete Poetry
……Page 64
Confessional Poetry
……Page 65
Connotation and Denotation
……Page 66
Conventions
……Page 67
Courtly Love
……Page 68
Criticism
……Page 69
Cultural Studies
……Page 73
Decadence
……Page 74
Deconstruction
……Page 75
Decorum
……Page 81
Dialogic Criticism
……Page 82
Didactic Literature
……Page 85
Discourse Analysis
……Page 86
Dissociation of Sensibility
……Page 87
Distance and Involvement
……Page 88
Drama
……Page 89
Dramatic Monologue
……Page 90
Edition
……Page 91
Elegy
……Page 92
Empathy and Sympathy
……Page 94
Enlightenment
……Page 95
Epic
……Page 96
Epigram
……Page 99
Epiphany
……Page 100
Epithalamion
……Page 101
Essay
……Page 102
Euphony and Cacophony
……Page 103
Euphuism
……Page 104
Expressionism
……Page 105
Fabliau
……Page 106
Fancy and Imagination
……Page 107
Feminist Criticism
……Page 108
Fiction and Truth
……Page 114
Figurative Language
……Page 116
Folklore
……Page 120
Form and Structure
……Page 121
Formalism
……Page 122
Free Verse
……Page 125
Genres
……Page 128
Gothic Novel
……Page 130
Great Chain of Being
……Page 132
Haiku (sometimes spelled hokku)
……Page 133
Heroic Couplet
……Page 134
Heroic Drama
……Page 135
Humanism
……Page 136
Hymn
……Page 139
Hyperbole and Understatement
……Page 140
Imagery
……Page 141
Imagism
……Page 142
Imitation
……Page 143
Influence and the Anxiety of Influence
……Page 144
Intentional Fallacy
……Page 146
Interpretation and Hermeneutics
……Page 147
Interpretation: Typological and Allegorical
……Page 152
Irony
……Page 154
Jeremiad
……Page 158
Light Verse
……Page 159
Linguistics in Literary Criticism
……Page 160
Local Color
……Page 165
Lyric
……Page 166
Marxist Criticism
……Page 167
Masque
……Page 173
Metaphor, Theories of
……Page 174
Metaphysical Poets
……Page 178
Meter
……Page 179
Miracle Plays, Morality Plays, and Interludes
……Page 185
Modernism and Postmodernism
……Page 187
Motif and Theme
……Page 189
Myth
……Page 190
Narration, Grammar of
……Page 192
Narrative and Narratology
……Page 193
Neoclassic and Romantic
……Page 194
New Criticism
……Page 200
New Historicism
……Page 202
Novel
……Page 210
Objective and Subjective
……Page 216
Occasional Poems
……Page 217
Ode
……Page 218
Onomatopoeia
……Page 219
Palinode
……Page 220
Paradox
……Page 221
Pastoral
……Page 222
Pathetic Fallacy
……Page 223
Periods of American Literature
……Page 224
Periods of English Literature
……Page 230
Persona, Tone, and Voice
……Page 237
Phenomenology and Criticism
……Page 240
Platonic Love
……Page 243
Plot
……Page 244
Poetic Diction
……Page 248
Poetic License
……Page 250
Point of View
……Page 251
Postcolonial Studies
……Page 256
Poststructuralism
……Page 258
Pre-Raphaelites
……Page 263
Primitivism
and Progress……Page 264
Prose
……Page 266
Psychological and Psychoanalytic Criticism
……Page 267
Purple Patch
……Page 273
Queer Theory
……Page 274
Reader-Response Criticism
……Page 276
Realism and Naturalism
……Page 280
Reception-Theory
……Page 282
Refrain
……Page 283
Renaissance
……Page 284
Rhetoric
……Page 288
Rhetorical Criticism
……Page 289
Rhetorical Figures
……Page 290
Rhyme
……Page 293
Satire
……Page 295
Science fíction and fantasy
……Page 298
Semiotics
……Page 299
Sensibility, Literature of
……Page 302
Setting
……Page 304
Seven Deadly Sins
……Page 305
Short Story
……Page 306
Sociology of Literature
……Page 308
Soliloquy
……Page 309
Sonnet
……Page 310
Speech-Act Theory
……Page 311
Stanza
……Page 314
Stock Characters
……Page 317
Stream of Consciousness
……Page 318
Structuralist Criticism
……Page 320
Style
……Page 323
Stylistics
……Page 325
Sublime
……Page 328
Surrealism
……Page 330
Symbol
……Page 331
Symbolist Movement
……Page 334
Tension
……Page 335
Text and Writing (Écriture)
……Page 336
Textual criticism
……Page 337
Three Unities
……Page 340
Tragedy
……Page 341
Tragicomedy
……Page 345
Transcendentalism in America
……Page 346
Utopias and Dystopias
……Page 347
Victorian and Victorianism
……Page 348
Wit, Humor, and the Comic
……Page 349
B
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C
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D
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F
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H
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J
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L
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M
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P
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R
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S
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T
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W
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Z
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A
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C
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D
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F
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G
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I
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L
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M
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N
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P
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R
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S
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T
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V
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Z
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