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Mimesis
It's not real, but it can be true
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Ambiguity
Literature speaks with a forked tongue
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Hermeneutics
Reading literature and understanding literature are two different things
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The Classic
The classic is the gold standard of literature—but all that glistens is not classic
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Intentionalism
What a work of literature means is not always what the author means it to mean
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The Affective Fallacy
Feel free to like or dislike—but don't stop there
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Narrative/Story
Don't tell me a S____: N______ me a N_______
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Epic
If they are so great, why don't we do them any more?
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Lyric/Prosody
Poetry sings
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Gothic
Terrify us, please!
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The Translation Paradox
It's impossible—but what option do we have?
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Culture
Culture is to society what honey is to the bee-hive
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Milieu
Not where the author, but the author's work comes from
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Base/Superstructure
The foundations of literature are not literary
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The Canon
The best that has been thought and written. Read it!
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Genre
Tell me a story—just like the last story
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Closure
Literature loves the finishing touch
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Paradigm Shift
It's a battlefield
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Ownership
Literature is harder to keep hold of than a piece of wet soap
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Critical Authority
I'll make my own mind up, thank you very much
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Style
Everyone may have one, but a good _____ is very hard to come by
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Allegory
Keeps the readers on their toes
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Irony
The camera may never lie. Literature does. And cleverly
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Imagery
A picture is worth a thousands words—but usually doesn't require as many
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Allusion
The reader who reads most gets most
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Defamiliarization
Literature kicks
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Bricolage
You have to work with what you've got
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Metafiction
Nothing new under the literary sun
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Solidity of Specification
Where detail is concerned, enough is a feast
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Structuralism
Meaning is conferred by social structures
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Deconstruction
Meaning is always deferred
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Textuality
Literature is appreciated; a text is studied
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Double Bind
There's no way out
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Postmodernism
Make it new, then make it newer. Differently
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Heteroglossia
Not Babel but literature
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New Historicism
Sweat the historical details
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Post-Colonialism
The empire strikes back
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Semiology
Signification makes meaning
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Reception Theory
It's the readers who matter
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Sexual Politics
There is a "female" literature
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Plagiarism
Published literature is private property
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Obscenity
It's a moving target. And the law is never quick on the draw
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Libel
Literature can be as realistic as it likes—but not with real living people
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Blasphemy
Natural selection forms new species
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Permissiveness
Watch your mouth
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Literary Lies
Sometimes literature is just so much fiction
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Ghost Writers
The thing about ghosts is that you can't see them
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Fanfic
You can publish on the web what you can't print on the page
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The e-Book
Media maketh literature
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Literary Inundation
What you are reading may not be a book, but a coffin
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