BBC World Service - World Book Club - Downloads. OIB Language and Literature. English Language and Literature. OIB English Language and Literature, Class of 2016. OIB Language and Literature, Class of 2017. OIB English Language and Literature, Class of 2018. Literary Terms and Definitions A. Literary Terms and Definitions: A This page is under perpetual construction!
It was last updated January 5, 2017. This list is meant to assist, not intimidate. Use it as a touchstone for important concepts and vocabulary that we will cover during the term. Vocabulary terms are listed alphabetically. A POSTERIORI: In rhetoric, logic, and philosophy, a belief or proposition is said to be a posteriori if it can only be determined through observation (Palmer 381). A PRIORI: In rhetoric, logic, and philosophy, an argument is said to be a priori if its truth can be known or inferred independently of any direct perception.
ABBEY THEATRE: The center of the Irish Dramatic movment founded in 1899 by W. AB OVO (Latin, "from the egg"): This phrase refers to a narrative that starts at the beginning of the plot, and then moves chronologically through a sequence of events to the tale's conclusion. The Elements of Fiction. 1200 Free Online Courses from Top Universities. Advertisment Take online courses from the world’s top universities for free.
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13 Lectures from Allen Ginsberg’s “History of Poetry” Course (1975) - If you want to understand poetry, ask a poet.
“What is this?” You ask, “some kind of Zen saying?” Obvious, but subtle? Maybe. What I mean to say is that I have found poetry one of those distinctive practices of which the practitioners themselves—rather than scholars and critics—make the best expositors, even in such seemingly academic subject areas as the history of poetry. We’ve previously featured some of Ginsberg’s Naropa lectures here at Open Culture, including his 1980 short course on Shakespeare’s The Tempest and his lecture on “Expansive Poetics” from 1981. Ginsberg references Pound’s pithy text The ABC of Reading and discusses his penchant for “ransack[ing] the world’s literature, looking for usable verse forms.”
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Lectures will provide background for the readings and explicate them where appropriate, while attempting to develop a coherent overall context that incorporates philosophical and social perspectives on the recurrent questions: what is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose? View class sessions » Course Structure. World Literature in 13 Parts: From Gilgamesh to García Márquez. Love and longing, hope and fear - these threads run throughout all literature, whether we're talking about the great ancient epics, or contemporary novels written in the East or the West.
That's the main premise of Invitation to World Literature, a multimedia program organized by David Damrosch (Harvard University), and made with the backing of WGBH and Annenberg Media. The program features 13 half-hour videos, which move from The Epic of Gilgamesh (circa 2500 BCE) through García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967). Hear Roland Barthes Present His 40-Hour Course, La Préparation du roman, in French (1978-80) A key figure in such academic areas as semiology, structuralism, and post-structuralism, and author of such theoretical classics as Mythologies, The Pleasure of the Text, and S/Z, Roland Barthes is familiar to students across the humanities.
His prolific output encompassed books on literary theory, philosophy, linguistics, anthropology, and theoretical essays on photography, music, fashion, sports, and love. In addition to his wide-ranging writings, Barthes lectured in the U.S., Switzerland, and at the Collège de France, where he was elected Chair of Semiology in 1977. Barthes’ 1978-1980 lecture course at the Collège de France—titled The Preparation of the Novel—has been preserved in an English translation by Kate Briggs. Speakers of French, however, can hear Barthes himself deliver the lecture series in audio archived at Ubuweb. Oscar Wilde. The Bible and English Literature by Northrop Frye - Full Lectures.
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Rhyme-schemes, stanza patterns 1. Rhyme-schemes One of the most basic functions of rhyme is to create connections between lines of poetry and thus to form units larger than individual lines. Such units are therefore characterized by certain patterns of rhymes which are termed rhyme-schemes. The smallest unit of rhyming lines is the couplet: two lines (usually of similar length) joined together by rhyme (see the first example above). N.B. Units of three (usually rhyming) lines are called tercets. Poetry Terms: 40 Brief Definitions. Home | Literary Movements | Timeline | American Authors | American Literature Sites | Bibliographies | Site Updates Poetry Terms: Brief Definitions Go to Drama Terms or Fiction Terms Try the Online Quiz on Poetry Terms to test your knowledge of these terms.You might also like to try the Online Quiz on Prosody to test your knowledge of scanning poetry.
Alliteration: The repetition of identical consonant sounds, most often the sounds beginning words, in close proximity. Example: pensive poets, nattering nabobs of negativism. Allusion: Unacknowledged reference and quotations that authors assume their readers will recognize.