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Literary techniques
underreading
Literature; Literary techniques
The activity of neglecting material that is signified within a text.
naturalizing
Literature; Literary techniques
Culler’s term for the operation by which readers or viewers impose familiarity on a narrative, usually by overreading or underreading.
medium
Literature; Literary techniques
The vehicle conveying a narrative – written language, film, oil paint, fabric, lithe bodies moving silently on a stage.
interpretation
Literature; Literary techniques
The act of expressing in one’s own way the meanings – including ideas, values, and feelings – communicated by a text.
lexia
Literature; Literary techniques
Roland Barthes in S/Z called lexia the “units of meaning” in a text, “blocks of signification” which amount to anything from a few words to several sentences. The termhas since been adapted in ...
narrative discourse
Literature; Literary techniques
The story as narrated – that is, the story as rendered in a particular narrative.
