With a series of succint, pithy essays, renowned literary critic John Sutherland strips away all pretension and provides concise definitions and clear examples of the 50 most important terms and concepts that all book lovers should know. Intro --...
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With a series of succint, pithy essays, renowned literary critic John Sutherland strips away all pretension and provides concise definitions and clear examples of the 50 most important terms and concepts that all book lovers should know. Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- SOME BASICS -- 01 Mimesis -- 02 Ambiguity -- 03 Hermeneutics -- 04 The Classic -- 05 Intentionalism -- 06 The Affective Fallacy -- 07 Narrative / Story -- 08 Epic -- 09 Lyric / Prosody -- 10 Gothic -- 11 The Translation Paradox -- MACHINERY: HOW IT WORKS -- 12 Culture -- 13 Milieu -- 14 Base / Superstructure -- 15 The Canon -- 16 Genre -- 17 Closure -- 18 Paradigm Shift -- 19 Ownership -- 20 Critical Authority -- 21 Style -- LITERATURE'S DEVICES -- 22 Allegory -- 23 Irony -- 24 Imagery -- 25 Allusion -- 26 Defamiliarization -- 27 Bricolage -- 28 Metafiction -- 29 Solidity of Specification -- NEW IDEAS -- 30 Structuralism -- 31 Deconstruction -- 32 Textuality -- 33 Double Bind -- 34 Postmodernism -- 35 Heteroglossia -- 36 New Historicism -- 37 Postcolonialism -- 38 Semiology -- 39 Reception Theory -- 40 Sexual Politics -- WORD CRIMES -- 41 Plagiarism -- 42 Obscenity -- 43 Libel -- 44 Blasphemy -- 45 Permissiveness -- 46 Literary Lies -- 47 Ghost-Writers -- LITERARY FUTURES -- 48 Fanfic -- 49 The e-Book -- 50 Literary Inundation -- Glossary -- A -- B -- D -- E -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
