Literary Terms

by Moon, Brian

• ISBN13: 9780814130087
• ISBN10: 0814130089
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Natl Council of Teachers of english

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xii
Preface	p. xiii
Author	p. 1
Authorization	p. 2
Binary Opposition	p. 4
Character	p. 9
Class	p. 15
Code	p. 19
Character Code	p. 20
Suspense Code	p. 20
Plot Code	p. 21
Structural Code	p. 21
Cultural Code	p. 21
Communication	p. 24
Context	p. 28
Conventions	p. 33
Reading Convention	p. 34
Textual Convention	p. 34
Criticism	p. 36
Culture and Nature	p. 39
Naturalization	p. 40
Deconstruction	p. 42
Denotation and Connotation	p. 46
Discourse	p. 50
Dominant Discourse	p. 51
Alternative Discourse	p. 51
Oppositional Discourse	p. 51
English Criticism	p. 53
Feminist Criticism	p. 57
Patriarchy	p. 57
Figurative Language	p. 61
Simile	p. 62
Metaphor	p. 62
Metonym	p. 62
Personification	p. 62
Symbol	p. 62
Foregrounding and Privileging	p. 66
Gaps and Silences	p. 70
Gender	p. 74
Genre	p. 78
Identification	p. 82
Ideology	p. 85
Imagery	p. 88
Intertextuality	p. 92
Allusion	p. 93
Literature	p. 96
Marxist Criticism	p. 100
Narrative	p. 103
Story	p. 104
Plot	p. 104
Omniscient Narrator	p. 104
Limited Narrator	p. 104
New Criticism	p. 106
Point of View	p. 110
Narrator	p. 111
Third-Person Point of View	p. 111
First-Person Point of View	p. 111
Polysemy	p. 114
Poststructuralism	p. 118
Institution	p. 119
Power	p. 122
Hegemony	p. 123
Psychoanalytic Criticism	p. 126
Mirroring	p. 127
Race	p. 130
Reading Practices	p. 134
Resistant Reading Practice	p. 135
Readings	p. 138
Preferred Reading	p. 139
Resistant Reading	p. 139
Alternative Reading	p. 139
Representation	p. 142
Stereotypes	p. 143
Semiotics	p. 146
Structuralism	p. 150
Style	p. 155
Diction	p. 156
Rhetorical Devices	p. 156
Sentence Organization	p. 156
Syntax	p. 156
Text	p. 160
Closed Text	p. 161
Open Text	p. 161
Theme	p. 166
Motif	p. 167
Writing and Speech	p. 170
Index	p. 174
About the Author	p. 177
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