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| | Introduction to Modern Literary Theory |
 | | The Prague Linguistic Circle viewed literature as a special class of language, and rested on the assumption that there is a fundamental opposition between literary (or poetical) language and ordinary language. | | | In contrast, it views literary language as self-focused: its function is not to make extrinsic references, but to draw attention to its own "formal" features--that is, to interrelationships among the linguistic signs themselves. | | | However, merely unearthing women's literature did not ensure its prominence; in order to assess women's writings the number of preconceptions inherent in a literary canon dominated by male beliefs and male writers needed to be re-evaluated. |
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http://www.kristisiegel.com/theory.htm
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| | Literary Translation Resources |
| | A mailing list dedicated to literary translation, from and toward any language - this list deals with questions of terminology, style, translation theory, publishing, resources, and anything else that can be useful to literary translators. | | | The articles on translations from specific languages are interesting, giving an overview of the history of translations from these languages, and showing how the types of authors and books translated has varied over time. | | | An interesting example of how translators work is presented in the chapter, "A day in the life of a literary translator". |
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http://www.mcelhearn.com/lit.html
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| | Literary Devices |
| | Many of the literary devices in the Scriptures are easy to recognize; yet some may be too subtle for us unless we are more familiar with the language style and idiom of the time of the writers. | | | Effective speakers and writers have always made good use of literary devices and accommodative language. | | | I have been selective in my coverage of literary devices used in the Scriptures for the sake of brevity and in order to offer help in understanding certain passages. |
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http://www.freedomsring.org/ftc/chap8.html
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| | Glossary of Literary Terms A through E - Meyer Literature |
| | Deconstructionism An approach to literature which suggests that literary works do not yield fixed, single meanings, because language can never say exactly what we intend it to mean. | | | Typically, ballads are dramatic, condensed, and impersonal narratives, such as "Bonny Barbara Allan." A literary ballad is a narrative poem that is written in deliberate imitation of the language, form, and spirit of the traditional ballad, such as Keats’s "La Belle Dame sans Merci." See also ballad stanza, quatrain. | | | Common literary archetypes include stories of quests, initiations, scapegoats, descents to the underworld, and ascents to heaven. |
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http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/literature/bedlit/glossary_a.htm
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| | The Literary Mind |
| | Language, he concludes, is the child of the literary mind. | | | The Literary Mind is the most recent, and the best, of a series of books in which Turner has not simply brought cognitive models to bear on figurative language and the study of literature, but has made notable contributions to cognitive science in the process. | | | It ends with the splendidly bold claim that this storying, literary mind comes first, before all other kinds of thought, even language itself. |
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http://markturner.org/lm.html
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| | Introduction to Modern Literary Theory |
| | The Prague Linguistic Circle viewed literature as a special class of language, and rested on the assumption that there is a fundamental opposition between literary (or poetical) language and ordinary language. | | | In contrast, it views literary language as self-focused: its function is not to make extrinsic references, but to draw attention to its own "formal" features--that is, to interrelationships among the linguistic signs themselves. | | | However, merely unearthing women's literature did not ensure its prominence; in order to assess women's writings the number of preconceptions inherent in a literary canon dominated by male beliefs and male writers needed to be re-evaluated. |
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http://www.kristisiegel.com/theory.htm
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| | French Explication |
| | French "explication de texte" is an organized analytical description of a literary work as a text, that is a fixed document. | | | What keeps us from anything but a secret appreciation of literary works, a feigned indifference, perhaps even a public disavowal of them? | | | They may focus on literary genre, kind of literary or rhetorical image, frequency of structure or word, the delineation between form and content, the identification of narrators, anticipated or embedded readers, what is implicit in an utterance. |
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http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/exptext.html
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| | Ethiopic Language - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia |
| | But Ge`ez continued to be the sacred language; it was the language of the Bible and of the church, and when in the 14th and 15th centuries a revival of Abyssinian literature came about, the literary language was Ge`ez. | | | Their example was followed by the defenders of the native church; and since that time Amharic has become a recognized literary language in Abyssinia, although Ge`ez is still considered the real language of the church. | | | The language commonly called Ethiopic is the language in which the inscriptions of the kings of the ancient Aksumitic (Axumite) empire and most of the literature of Christian Abyssinia are written. |
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http://www.searchgodsword.org/enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T3236
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| | canadian literary journals |
| | Literary language - A literary language is a register of a language that is used in writing, and which often differs in lexicon and syntax from the language used in... | | | Theme (literary) - In literature, a theme is the main idea of the story, or the message the author is conveying. | | | Contrast (literary) - In literature, an author writes contrast when he or she describes the difference(s) between two or more entities. |
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http://www.serebella.com/search/topic-canadian%20literary%20journals.html
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| | Literary Elements: |
| | English language Arts, literary elements, may be applied to any time period of literature, the theme throughout is to offer students a common background of information that may or may not coincide within instruction based on a literary text. | | | The language and vocabulary used in the discussion of literary elements are focused on the terms that are introduced in the 9 | | | The format should be a recipe and the topic should be to inform on the literary elements authors use in literary works. |
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http://www.auburn.edu/~bakerab/rlplan2.htm
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| | University at Albany Undergraduate Bulletin - 2005-2006: English Courses |
| | Introduction to classics of western literature, emphasizing foundational works for literary study by tracing the evolution of Anglophone modern literary genres from Homeric epics. | | | The development of Shakespeare's dramatic art, with emphasis on character, language, theme, form and structure in comedies, histories and tragedies of the 16th century. | | | Topics to be discussed may include, among others: major developments in themes, language, forms and modes of poetry; poetics; poetry in the arts, including theatre and song. |
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http://www.albany.edu/undergraduate_bulletin/courses/a_eng.html
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| | Literary |
| | Literary language A literary language is a syntax from the language used in speech. | | | Literary antagonist The antagonist is the character (or group of characters) of a story who represents the opposition ag... | | | Literary quotations from Hamlet Act I, Scene 2 External link Wikiquote - List of quotations in literary works... |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/literary.html
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| | Literary Arts |
| | Hence, the- necessity of knowing the chaste or literary language. | | | Tbree branches of art are based on the knowledge and practical and clever application of language and words. | | | Yasodhara, in his commentary, has quoted such a verse which is completely unintelligible. |
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http://www.indiangyan.com/books/otherbooks/finearts/literary_arts.shtml
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| | ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan |
| | Students are divided into their original groups and asked to compose an Acceptance Speech for the Figurative Language Award. Tell them to use as many of their literary devices (simile, metaphor, personification) as they can in their speech. | | | The students will be using their knowledge of literary devices to host an awards ceremony for the best use of figurative language. | | | Classroom libraries offer a variety of literature to young readers and writers, but the reading experience itself can be enriched when students understand the many literary devices that authors use in their writing. |
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http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=115
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| | Language.html |
| | he issue of languages raises several polemical questions for consideration in the study of literary texts: does the author choose to work in a local language or a major European one? | | | people living in Djibouti, Cameroon, Morocco, Haiti, Cambodia, and France can all speak to one another in French) and to counter a colonial past through de-forming a "standard" European tongue and re-forming it in new literary forms. | | | African Languages and Literatures: a site at the University of Florida, dedicated largely to Swahili. |
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http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Language.html
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| | Introduction to Modern Literary Theory |
| | The Prague Linguistic Circle viewed literature as a special class of language, and rested on the assumption that there is a fundamental opposition between literary (or poetical) language and ordinary language. | | | Both Lacan and his critics argue whether the real order represents the period before the imaginary order when a child is completely fulfilled--without need or lack, or if the real order follows the symbolic order and represents our "perennial lack" (because we cannot return to the state of wholeness that existed before language). | | | Consequently, the implied reader as a concept has his roots firmly planted in the structure of the text; he is a construct and in no way to be identified with any real reader" (Greig E. Henderson and Christopher Brown - Glossary of Literary Theory). |
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http://www.kristisiegel.com/theory.htm
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| | Between Language Play and Language Game |
| | The introduction points out that language play is not limited to literary texts but is present in informative texts and everyday conversation, especially in English. | | | Language play is not only part of the everyday life of the speakers of English, it has also become part of their literature. | | | It is suggested that language play is introduced into Czech literature under the influence of other literatures as it often appears in the works of writers who also work as translators from English (J. Zábrana, J. Škvorecký, B. Hodek). |
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http://www.phil.muni.cz/stylistika/studie/play.htm
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| | Hebrew Poetry |
| | It was therefore regarded as inconsistent with such a high purpose that these writers should trouble themselves about literary embellishment or beautiful language, so long as the sense was clear and unambiguous. | | | We may perhaps ascribe this fact mainly to two causes: (1) Since the Bible was regarded as preeminently, if not exclusively, a revelation of the divine mind, attention was fixed upon what it contained, to the neglect of the literary form in which it was expressed. | | | and literary, not rigid, fixed, scientific" (Preface to the first edition of Literature and Dogma). |
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http://www.bible-researcher.com/hebrew-poetry.html
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| | The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind. | | | Scottish culture was bitterly suppressed after the '45, particularly markers of Highland culture such as the bagpipe, kilt, and Gaelic language--the use of any one of which became a criminal offense. | | | Scottish literature holds a unique position among literatures in and around the English language -- a 400 year history in which it has passed back and forth between national and regional status, depending on the conditions of state politics and national culture. |
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http://mason.gmu.edu/~stichy/685Scotpoetry.htm
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| | Introduction to Modern Literary Theory |
| | The Prague Linguistic Circle viewed literature as a special class of language, and rested on the assumption that there is a fundamental opposition between literary (or poetical) language and ordinary language. | | | Both Lacan and his critics argue whether the real order represents the period before the imaginary order when a child is completely fulfilled--without need or lack, or if the real order follows the symbolic order and represents our "perennial lack" (because we cannot return to the state of wholeness that existed before language). | | | However, merely unearthing women's literature did not ensure its prominence; in order to assess women's writings the number of preconceptions inherent in a literary canon dominated by male beliefs and male writers needed to be re-evaluated. |
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http://www.kristisiegel.com/theory.htm
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| | Introduction to Modern Literary Theory |
| | The Prague Linguistic Circle viewed literature as a special class of language, and rested on the assumption that there is a fundamental opposition between literary (or poetical) language and ordinary language. | | | In contrast, it views literary language as self-focused: its function is not to make extrinsic references, but to draw attention to its own "formal" features--that is, to interrelationships among the linguistic signs themselves. | | | However, merely unearthing women's literature did not ensure its prominence; in order to assess women's writings the number of preconceptions inherent in a literary canon dominated by male beliefs and male writers needed to be re-evaluated. |
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http://www.kristisiegel.com/theory.htm
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| | Rethinking Literary History - Comparatively (ACLS Occasional Paper No. 27) |
| | This general intertwining of the literary and the national, however, is not one to be abandoned in a “comparative” literary history, but to limit oneself to it would be to downplay the power of other “imagined communities&; based on, say, language or geographic region rather than nation. | | | The ICLA series of comparative literary histories, as a whole, has sought to do something very different from what national literary histories have done, both in their traditional forms and in their recent, quite differently formatted ones (such as A New History of French Literature). | | | Similarly, literary history is inevitably the history of the past as read through the present. |
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http://www.acls.org/op27.htm
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| | proto-anthology of hypermedia poetry |
| | Oisleand is an exploration of the translation of one written language into another. | | | A short-stride in the progression of digital literary arts, The Beat Experience is a slick pseudo-documentary of a literary movement. | | | Directing readers (either by reference or built-in link) to a Site such as Levi Asher's Literary Kicks would be the first step in extending outward. |
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http://web.njit.edu/~cfunk/web/inside.html
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| | Introduction to Modern Literary Theory |
| | The Prague Linguistic Circle viewed literature as a special class of language, and rested on the assumption that there is a fundamental opposition between literary (or poetical) language and ordinary language. | | | However, merely unearthing women's literature did not ensure its prominence; in order to assess women's writings the number of preconceptions inherent in a literary canon dominated by male beliefs and male writers needed to be re-evaluated. | | | Because of this, Cixous says, the female body in general becomes unrepresentable in language; it's what can't be spoken or written in the phallogocentric Symbolic order. |
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http://www.kristisiegel.com/theory.htm
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| | The epidemic is a recurring theme in literary history |
| | Saramago redesigns a traditional literary motif and with signifying forms unique to language and to the novel creates a dialogue between literature and a visually aesthetic reality and ethically blind world. | | | The epidemic is a recurring theme with a long tradition in literary history of which Albert Camus The Plague is probably twentieth centurys best known example. | | | Contemporary writing returns to this literary motif and reveals similar ethical anxieties of the present context, though with new literary and conceptual forms. |
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http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/v07/vieira.html
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| | Indeed, it is my contention that the very act of distinguishing between ordinary and literary language, because of what it assumes, leads necessarily to an inadequate account of both'. | | | Literary criticism, presumably always specially sensitive to the functions of language, and newly sensitive to its relationship to power on the site of institutionalized disciplines, can turn its tools to the critical examination of how, in relation to the state and its largest institutions, power operates in discourse and how discourse disciplines a population.... | | | (Kinneavy 1971: 8) 'In Antiquity, three main aims of language structured the training in the art of discourse: the literary, the persuasive (rhetorical), and the pursuit of truth (dialectical)'. |
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http://www.sil.org/~radneyr/humanities/L.htm
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| | Russian Formalism |
| | Shklovskii, for instance, remained predominantly concerned with literary theory (the laws of expenditure and economy in poetic language, general laws of plots and general laws of perception) rather than with linguistics, while Eikhenbaum and Tynianov are best known for their work as literary historians. | | | Veselovskii's work in comparative studies of literature and folklore as well as in the theory of literary evolution attracted the attention of the Formalists (particularly Shklovskii, Eikhenbaum, and Vladimir Propp), who found much of interest in his positivist notions of literary history and the evolution of poetic forms. | | | The function of the dominant in the service of literary evolution included the replacement of canonical forms and genres by new forms, which in turn would become canonized and, likewise, replaced by still newer forms (see esp. Tynianov, "Literary," and Jakobson, "Dominant"). |
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http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/russian_formalism.html
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| | I Tatti Renaissance Library/Neo-Latin Literature |
| | The grammars and dictionaries; the uniform edition of canonical authors; the commentaries and the literary researches--all the scholarship the academies produced had the goal of fitting the vernacular languages and literatures into the mold of the classical languages. | | | A renewal of the ancestral language and literature of Italy was the key to the return of her ancient greatness. | | | Latin had once been an imperial language, a language of timeless beauty, spoken by beings of superior wisdom and virtue. |
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http://www.hup.harvard.edu/itatti/neolatin_lit.html
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| | In the Aftermath of Yugoslavia's Collapse |
| | Croats have the right to their own literary language.12 This language rebellion was a precursor to | | | Herzegovina-type (Neo-_tokavian/ijekavian) dialect for the new literary language. | | | "language death," which has become a popular topic among linguists. |
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http://www.unc.edu/courses/2001fall/slav/075/aftermath.htm
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