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omniscient narrator

Literature; General literature

An omniscient narrator is an all-knowing narrator who is not a character in the story and who can move from place to place and pass back and forth through time, slipping into and out of characters as ...

oedipus complex

Literature; General literature

A Freudian term derived from Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus the King. It describes a psychological complex that is predicated on a boy’s unconscious rivalry with his father for his mother’s love and his ...

ode

Literature; General literature

A relatively lengthy lyric poem that often expresses lofty emotions in a dignified style. Odes are characterized by a serious topic, such as truth, art, freedom, justice, or the meaning of life; ...

objective point of view

Literature; General literature

See point of view.

octave

Literature; General literature

A poetic stanza of eight lines, usually forming one part of a sonnet. See also sonnet, stanza.

new historicism

Literature; General literature

An approach to literature that emphasizes the interaction between the historic context of the work and a modern reader’s understanding and interpretation of the work. New historicists attempt to ...

new criticism

Literature; General literature

An approach to literature made popular between the 1940s and the 1960s that evolved out of formalist criticism. New Critics suggest that detailed analysis of the language of a literary text can ...