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Literary Terms Coined by Writers in Literature

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  • 1. Objective Correlative by T.S.Eliot
  • 2. Dissociation of Sensibility by T.S.Eliot
  • 3. Willing to Suspension of Disbelief by Coleridge
  • 4. Negative Capability by Keats
  • 5. American Renaissance by F.O Matthiessen
  • 6.Natyashastra by Bharata
  • 7. Rasa concept by Bharata
  • 8. Kavya Prakasha by Mamata
  • 9. Dhvanyaloka or Suggestion by Anandvardhana
  • 10. Vakrokti by Kuntaka
  • 11. Riti, Guna, Kavyalankara by Vaman
  • 12. Positivism by August Campte
  • 13. Romantic by Friedrich Schlegel
  • 14. Metaphysical Poets by Dr.Johnson
  • 15. Upstart Crow is Robert Green
  • 16. Cultural Materialism by Raymond Williams
  • 17. Imagism by T.E.Hume
  • 18. Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson
  • 19. Horizon of Expectation by H.R.Jauss
  • 20. Strategic Essentialism by Gayitri Spivak
  • 21. Utilitarianism by J.S..Mill
  • 22. Incunabula means Books published before 1501
  • 23. Tension by Allen Tate
  • 24. Strong Lined Poetry by G.M.Hopkins
  • 25. Dictum 'Life Imitates Art' by John Ruskin
  • 26. Theatre of Cruelty by Jerzy
  • 27. Epic Theatre by Bertold Bretch
  • 28. Theatre of Oppressed by Augusto Bal
  • 29. Expressionist Theatre by George Kaiser
  • 30. The Guilded Age by Mark Twain
  • 31. Ambiguity by William Empson
  • 32. Intertextuality by Julia Kristeva
  • 33. Heteroglossia by M.Bakhtin
  • 34. Dialogic Imagination by M.Bakhtin
  • 35. Sublime by Longinus
  • 36. Carnivalesque by M.Bakhtin
  • 37. Jacobian Novel by Garry Kelly
  • 38. Surrealism by Andre Breton
  • 39. Decorum by Horace
  • 40. The wasp of Twickenham by Pope
  • 41. Theory of Avant Grade by Peter Berger
  • 42. Chaucer of Scotland is William Dunbar
  • 43. Poetic Justice by Rhymer
  • 44. TouchStone method by M.Arnold
  • 45. Pathetic Fallacy by John Ruskin
  • 46. Theory of Population by Malthus
  • 47. Provincialising Europe by Dipesh Chakravarthy
  • 48. Egotistical Sublime is to William Wordsworth
  • 49. Young Juvenile is Thomas Nash
  • 50. Macabre element by John Webster
  • 51. Sprung Rhythm and Curtal Sonnet and Inscape and Instress are by G.M.Hopkins
  • 52. Life Force by G.B.Shaw

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