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mixed with fiction. Myth: A traditional story intended to explain some mystery of nature, religious doctrine, or cultural belief. The gods and goddesses of mythology have supernatural powers, but the human characters usually do not. Novel: A book-length, fictional prose story. Because of its length, a novel’s characters and
Fowler’s seminal Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms. Bringing together original entries written by such celebrated theorists as Terry Eagleton and Malcolm Bradbury with new definitions of current terms and controversies, this is the essential reference book for students of literature at all levels. This book includes:
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Jan 1, 1997 · Two different approaches to the definition of literature (criterial and prototypical) are described, and some features of a prototypical literary work are outlined.
: a figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole thing. Syntax: sentence structure (see handout). Theme: the central idea in a literary work. The theme is usually an idea about life or about people. Writers sometimes state the story’s theme outright, but more often they simply tell the story and let the
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Aug 1, 2002 · This book demonstrates the presence of literature within speech act theory and the utility of speech act theory in reading literary work.
Does literature refer to or correspond to something outside texts? What sort of ‘truth’ does literature aim towards? ii. What mental process—the writer’s or reader’s—contributes to the production of literary texts? iii. To what extent are texts ‘autonomous’? What are the formal and structural properties of texts?
Find definitions of literary terms like metaphor, simile, irony, satire, plot, allegory, motif and literary devices used in poetry in the SparkNotes glossary.
