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Subject: Literary Theory X
Period: 1800-1899 X
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In the Chinese tradition, fiction was, for a long time, generally considered to be lowbrow and trivial ...
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Under “novel,” Gustave Flaubert's Dictionary of Accepted Ideas claims novels “Corrupt the masses” (1913, ...
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“Central Europe” is not a self-evident term. Indeed, it has represented a conceptual battlefield for ...
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Karl Marx's Capital , vol. 3 famously breaks off with two questions about class: “What makes a class?” ...
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Closure conventionally denotes a satisfying sense of completion at the end of a literary work. The term ...
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As literary concepts, the terms “tragedy” and “comedy” arise from a Greek-rooted Western tradition and ...
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How does one define the novel? Does it consist of a story of love, sex, and romance, or is it centrally ...
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The detective novel emerged from the U.S., France, and Great Britain in the mid-nineteenth century out ...
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In discussions of modern African literature, the broad regional category of “Eastern and Central Africa” ...
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The Russian formalists were an eclectic constellation of figures from a variety of fields, including ...