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Chief terms used in discussing literature, literary history and literary criticism.

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An aporia is an insuperable deadlock, or "double bind", of incompatible or contradictory meanings which are undecidable in that we lack any sufficient ground for choosing among them. According to ...

Domain: Literature; Category: Literary terms

An apologue is a short narrative, in prose or in verse, that exemplifies an abstract moral thesis or principle of human behaviour. It usually states at its conclusion by either the narrator or one of ...

Domain: Literature; Category: Literary terms

Aphorism is a pithy and pointed statement of a serious maxim, opinion or general truth. One of the best-known aphorisms is also one of the shortest: art is long, life is short. The term occurs first ...

Domain: Literature; Category: Literary terms

The antitype is the later correlative of the Old Testament figure, the type. The Old Testament type or figure is held to be a prophecy or promise of the higher truth that is "fulfilled" in the New ...

Domain: Literature; Category: Literary terms

Antimasque is sa form developed by Ben Jonson and in it the characters are grotesque and unruly, the action ludicrous, the humour broad. The term serves as a foil and is a countertype to the ...

Domain: Literature; Category: Literary terms

An antihero is the chief person in a modern novel or play whose character is widely discrepant from that which we associate with the traditional protagonist or hero of a serious literary work. ...

Domain: Literature; Category: Literary terms

Antifoundationalism is the undermining of traditional claims for the existence of self-evident foundations that guarantee the validity of knowledge and truth, and establish the possibility of ...

Domain: Literature; Category: Literary terms

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