Literature

Literature

Of or pertaining to the art of writing in any form or style, most especially published works.

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bibliography

Literature; Genre

Bibliography, as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology. Carter and Barker (2010) ...

biblical theology

Literature; Genre

Biblical theology for the most part is a Christian approach in which the theologian studies the Bible from the perspective of understanding the progressive history of God ...

bildungsroman

Literature; Genre

In literary criticism, a bildungsroman (German: "novel of formation/education/culture"), novel of formation, novel of education, or coming-of-age story (though it may also be ...

tone

Literature; Genre

Tone is a literary compound of composition, which encompasses the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work. Tone may be formal, informal, ...

torah

Literature; Genre

Torah is the central concept in the Judaic tradition. It has a range of meanings: it can most specifically mean the first five books of the Tanakh, it can mean this plus the ...

tragedy

Literature; Genre

Tragedy is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes in its audience an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in the viewing. While many cultures have developed forms ...

tragicomedy

Literature; Genre

Tragicomedy is a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragic and comic forms. Most often seen in dramatic literature, the term can variously describe either a tragic play ...