The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms - Ross Murfin 2018

The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms - Ross Murfin 2018

Absurd, the (absurd, literature or theater of the)

Aesthetic distance (distance, psychic[al] distance, dramatic illusion)

Aestheticism (Aesthetic Movement)

Affective fallacy

Affective stylistics

Age of Johnson (in English literature)

Antithetical criticism

Anxiety of influence

Aphorism (sententia)

Apocalypse, apocalyptic literature

Archetypal criticism

Augustan Age (in English literature)

Authorial intention

Ballad stanza (ballad meter)

Beat writers, Beat Generation

Beginning rhyme (head rhyme, initial rhyme)

Binary oppositions

Black humor (black comedy)

Bucolic (poetry)

Caesura (cesura)

Caroline Age (in English literature)

Catalexis (truncation)

Catharsis (katharsis)

Celtic Revival (Celtic Renaissance, Irish Literary Renaissance, Irish Revival)

Character, the character, characterization

Chicago school (neo-Aristotelianism)

Class (and literary studies)

Classic, classical

Close reading (explication)

Collective unconscious

Colonial Period (in American literature)

Comedy of humors (comedy of humours)

Comedy of manners

Commedia dell’arte

Common meter (common measure)

Commonwealth Age (in English literature)

Confessional poetry

Constructionism

Contextual criticism

Cultural criticism, cultural studies

Cultural materialism

Dead metaphor (frozen metaphor)

Descriptive linguistics

Detective fiction

Deus ex machina

Dialogic criticism

Digital humanities, the

Disability studies

Discourse analysis

Dissociation of sensibility

Domestic tragedy

Dramatic monologue

Dramatis personae

Dream vision (dream allegory)

Early National Period (in American literature)

Early Tudor Age (in English literature)

Edwardian Age (in English literature)

Ekphrasis (ecphrasis)

Elizabethan Age (in English literature)

End-stopped line

English sonnet (Shakespearean sonnet)

Enjambement (enjambment)

Epic simile (Homeric simile)

Episodic structure

Epistémé (discursive formation)

Epistolary novel

Epithalamium (epithalamion)

Erziehungsroman

Explication de texte

Expressive form, fallacy of expressive form

Fable (apologue)

Fantasy fiction

Feminine ending (light ending)

Feminist criticism

Figurative language

Figure of speech

Flat and round characters

Fourfold meaning (four levels of meaning / interpretation)

Free indirect discourse

Freytag’s Pyramid

Gay and lesbian criticism (sexualities criticism)

Gender criticism

Generative linguistics

Georgian Age (in English literature)

Gothic, Gothic literature

Graveyard School of Poetry

Harlem Renaissance

Heptameter (septenary)

Hermeneutics, hermeneutic circle

Historical novel

Homeric epithet

Horatian satire

Hubris (hybris)

Hudibrastic verse

Hysteron proteron

Illocutionary act

Imaginary order

Impressionistic criticism

Incremental repetition

Intentional fallacy

Interior monologue

Interpretive communities

Intersectionality

Intertextuality

Intrusive narrator

Irregular ode (Cowleyan ode)

Italian sonnet (Petrarchan sonnet)

Jacobean Age (in English literature)

Judicial criticism

Jungian criticism

Juvenalian satire

Language poetry

Link (hyperlink)

Literary criticism

Literature of sensibility

Locutionary act

Logocentric, logocentrism

Long meter (long measure)

Lost Generation

Magic(al) realism

Marxist criticism

Masculine ending

Masculine rhyme

Medieval romance (chivalric romance)

Menippean satire

Metaphysical conceit

Metaphysical poets

Metrical romance

Middle English Period (in English literature)

Mimetic criticism

Mock epic, mock heroic

Modern Period (in English and American literature)

Myth(ic) criticism

Mythopoeia (mythopoesis)

Naturalistic Period (in American literature)

Negative capability

Neoclassical Period (in English literature)

New Criticism, the

New historicism, the

Nonfiction novel

Objective correlative

Objective criticism

Occasional verse

Octameter (octometer)

Oedipus complex

Old English Period (in English literature)

Omniscient point of view

Oration, oratory

Pathetic fallacy

Periodic sentence

Periods in American literature

Periods in English literature

Perlocutionary act

Personal criticism

Personification

Petrarchan conceit

Phenomenological criticism

Picaresque novel

Pindaric ode (regular ode)

Platonic criticism

Polyphonic (polyvocalic)

Portmanteau word (blend)

Postcolonial literature, postcolonial theory

Posthumanism, posthuman

Postmodern Period (in English and American literature)

Poststructuralism

Practical criticism (applied criticism)

Pragmatic criticism

Prague Linguistic Circle

Pre-Raphaelitism

Presence and absence

Propositional act

Psychoanalytic criticism

Psychological criticism

Pun (paronomasia)

Pyrrhic (dibrach)

Reader-response criticism

Realistic novel

Realistic Period (in American literature)

Reception theory

Renaissance Period (in English literature)

Restoration Age (in English literature)

Revenge tragedy

Revolutionary Period (in American literature)

Rhetorical criticism

Rhetorical figures (schemes)

Rhyme royal (rime royal)

Romantic Period (in American literature)

Romantic Period (in English literature)

Russian formalism

Science fiction

Senecan tragedy

Sentimental comedy (drama of sensibility)

Sentimental novel

Sestet (sextet)

Seven Cardinal Virtues

Seven Deadly Sins

Short meter (short measure)

Slave narrative

Socialist realism

Sociological novel

Sonnet sequence (sonnet cycle)

Speech-act theory

Spenserian sonnet

Spenserian stanza

Stock character

Stream of consciousness

Structuralist criticism

Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress)

Suspension of disbelief

Synaesthesia (synesthesia)

Tail-rhyme stanza

Textual criticism

Theoretical criticism

Thick descriptions

Tragicomedy (tragi-comedy)

Transcendentalism

Transformational linguistics

Trope (figure of thought)

Unintrusive narrator

Unreliable narrator

Urban legend (urban myth)

Victorian Period (in English literature)

Wrenched accent