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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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avant-garde

Literature; Literary terms

Avant-garde is a prominent feature of modernism. It was a small, self-conscious group of artists and authirs who deliberately undertook "to make it new", in Ezra Pound's ...

aporia

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An aporia is an insuperable deadlock, or "double bind", of incompatible or contradictory meanings which are undecidable in that we lack any sufficient ground for choosing among ...

antifoundationalism

Literature; Literary terms

Antifoundationalism is the undermining of traditional claims for the existence of self-evident foundations that guarantee the validity of knowledge and truth, and establish the ...

romance novel

Literature; Literary terms

The romance novel or romantic novel is a literary genre which place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an "emotionally ...

simile

Literature; Literary terms

Simile is a figure of speech comparing two unlike things, often introduced by like or as. Other possibilities are for example: A is (not) like B A is more/less than B A is as … ...

elegy

Literature; Literary terms

Elegy is a type of literature defined as a song or poem, written in elegiac couplets, that expresses sorrow or lamentation, usually for one who has died.

unreliable narrator

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Unreliable narrator is one who gives his or her own understanding of a story, instead of the explanation and interpretation the author wishes the audience to obtain.