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Literature

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

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personification
Literature; Literary techniques

Attribution of personality to an impersonal thing.

exegesis
Literature; Literary techniques

Critical explanation and interpretation of a text.

narratee
Literature; Literary techniques

The narrator’s intended audience.

authorial intention
Literature; Literary techniques

The author’s intended meanings or effects.

third-person narration
Literature; Literary techniques

Conventionally, narrative in which the narrator is not a character in the story, and the characters are referred to in the third person.

temporal structure
Literature; Literary techniques

How the time of the narrative discourse relates to the time of the story. There are three major ways in which the time of the narrative discourse can depart from that of the ...

symptomatic reading
Literature; Literary techniques

Decoding a text as symptomatic of the author’s unconscious or unacknowledged state of mind, or of unacknowledged cultural conditions. Generally opposed to intentional reading.

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