LITERARY CRITICISM:FREE NOTES

Collective unconscious is the term given by the Swiss psychologist C. G. Jung to the inborn racial memory which he believed to be the primi...

Collage is a work assembled wholly or partly from fragments of other writings, incorporating allusions , quotations, and foreign phrases. O...

Cohesion   is a term used in linguistic analyses of texts such as those undertaken in stylistics , in reference to the degrees and kinds ...

Codex (plural codices) is a book consisting of ancient manuscripts. The study of codices is called codicology.

Code is a shared set of rules or conventions by which signs can be combined to permit a message to be communicated from one person to anot...

Closure is the sense of completion or resolution at the end of a literary work or part of a work or, in literary criticism, the reduction o...

Closet drama is a literary composition written in the form of a play, but intended—or suited—only for reading in a closet rather than for s...

Closed couplet is two lines of metrical verse in which the syntax and sense come to a conclusion or a strong pause at the end of the secon...

Climax is any moment of great intensity in a literary work, especially in drama. Also in rhetoric , a figure of speech in which a sequence o...

Clerihew is a form of comic verse named after its inventor, Edmund Clerihew Bentley. It consists of two metrically awkward couplets , and...

Clausula is the closing words of a prose sentence, especially when characterized by a distinct rhythm or cadence , as in the Latin oratory ...

Classicism is an attitude to literature that is guided by admiration of the qualities of formal balance, proportion, decorum , and restr...

Claque ( pronunced as klahk ) is the French word for a handclap, applied to a group of people hired by a theatre manager to applaud a perfo...

City comedy or citizen comedy is a kind of comic drama produced in the London theatres of the early 17th century, characterized by its conte...

Circumlocution is the roundabout manner of referring to something at length rather than naming it briefly and directly, usually known in lit...

Chronotope is a term employed by the Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin to refer to the co-ordinates of time and space invoked by a ...

Chronicle play is a history play , especially of the kind written in England in the 1590s and based upon the revised 1587 edition of Raphae...

Chronicle is a written record of events presented in order of time, and updated regularly over a prolonged period. The chroniclers of th...

Chrestomathy is a collection or anthology of passages in prose or verse, often selected for purposes of literary or linguistic study.

Chorus is a group of singers distinct from the principal performers in a dramatic or musical performance; also the song or refrain that th...