50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know

The ultimate guide to the most important ideas in literature.

Packed with insights and examples from both classic and popular works, it is a book that will delight anyone who has ever been mystified by literary jargon and wants to gain a deeper, more thorough enjoyment of reading and writing.

Introduction.
SOME BASICS: Mimesis
Ambiguity
Hermeneutics
The Classic
Intentionalism
The Affective Fallacy
Narrative/Story
Epic
Lyric/Prosody
Gothic
The Translation Paradox.
MACHINERY - HOW IT WORKS: Culture
Milieu
Base/Superstructure
The Canon
Genre
Closure
Paradigm Shift
Ownership
Critical Authority
Style.
LITERATURE'S DEVICES: Allegory
Irony
Imagery
Allusion
Defamiliarization
Bricolage
Metafiction
Solidity of Specification.
NEW IDEAS: Structuralism
Deconstruction
Textuality
Double bind
Postmodernism
Heteroglossia
New Historicism
Post-Colonialism
Semiology
Reception Theory
Sexual Politics.
WORD CRIMES: Plagiarism
Obscenity
Libel
Blasphemy
Permissiveness
Literary Lies
Ghost-Writers.
LITERARY FUTURES: Fanfic
The e-book
Literary Inundation.
Glossary.
Index.