Motif in Literature: Recurring Patterns That Build Meaning
A detailed guide to motif in literature — definition, examples, types, and how recurring images, phrases, objects, and actions build theme.
Literary Devices, Literary Analysis
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Narrator in Literature: Reliable, Unreliable, and Intrusive Narrators
A comprehensive guide to narrators in literature — definition, narrator vs author, reliable and unreliable narrators, intrusive narration, focalization, voice, and examples.
Narrative Technique, Literary Analysis, Close Reading
Neoclassicism in Literature: Order, Wit, and Imitation
A detailed guide to neoclassicism in literature — definition, historical context, key features, examples, and how order, wit, decorum, and classical imitation shape meaning.
Movements, Literary Analysis
New Criticism and Close Reading: The Text Itself
A detailed guide to New Criticism and close reading — definition, history, key ideas, examples, common mistakes, and practical methods for analyzing literary form.
Literary Theory, Literary Analysis
New Historicism and Cultural Materialism: Texts in History
A detailed guide to New Historicism and cultural materialism — definitions, history, major ideas, examples, and methods for reading literature with power, culture, and historical context.
Literary Theory, Literary Analysis
The Novel in Literature: Form, History, and Narrative Possibility
A detailed guide to the novel as a literary form — rise of the novel, realism, interiority, social world, and close reading methods.
Genres, Literary Analysis
Novella in Literature: Compression Between Short Story and Novel
A detailed guide to the novella — compression, psychological intensity, The Metamorphosis, Heart of Darkness, and close reading methods.
Genres, Literary Analysis
Ode in Poetry: Praise, Meditation, and Elevated Address
A detailed guide to the ode — Pindaric, Horatian, irregular odes, Keats, Wordsworth, Shelley, and close reading methods.
Poetry, Literary Analysis