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General Theoretical
Terms for the UNCA Literature and Language Comprehensive Exams
Term | Definition |
---|---|
Archetype | |
Author Function | |
Canon | |
Conventions | |
Deconstruction | |
Dialogic | |
Discourse | |
Feminist Criticism | |
Genre | |
Grotesque | |
Hermeneutics | |
Hybridity (postcolonial) | |
Intentional Fallacy | |
Intertextuality | |
Irony | |
Linguistics | |
Marxist Criticism | |
Metanarrative | |
Mimesis | |
Myth | |
Narratology | |
New Criticism | |
New Historicism | |
Orientalism | |
Pathetic Fallacy | |
Parody | |
Pastiche | |
Postcolonial | |
Poststructuralism | |
Psychoalytical Criticism | |
Queer Theory | |
Reader-Response Criticism | |
Semiotics | |
Signifier / Signified | |
Simulacra | |
Speech Act Theory | |
Structuralism | |
Subaltern | |
Verisimilitude |