Literary Terms - G

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A field of study which attempts to categorize literature as exemplified by Aristotle in his Poetics
Genre theory
A term coined by Richard Wagner to denote a work of art which combines music, drama, poetry, mime, painting in décor, etc. to create a whole. Ideally, all should proceed from a single creative mind and hand
Gesamtkunstwerk
A term used in film and media theory which refers to the hierarchical and ideaological ways in which spectators view images of people
Gaze
A strict verse form, used in Arabic, Persian and Turkish. It denotes a love poem of up to thirty couplets, with the rhyme scheme aa, ba, ca, da, etc. each couplet expressing a complete an isolated thought
Ghazal
A fictional narrative in which the spirit of a person, no longer bound by natural laws, manifests itself and 'haunts' a place, person or thing as a kind of 'presence'
Ghost Story
An alphabetical list of unfamiliar or difficult words or phrases
Glossary
An onomatopoeic word which derives from the sound poultry make, denoting unintelligible language, gibberish and thus nonsense
Gobbledegook
An era when things were at their best, e.g English literature - especially drama - c.1580 - c.1630
Golden Age
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A type of romance very popular from 1760s until the 1820s. It had much importance in the evolution of the horror story
Gothic
Any theory of intellectual system which attempts to provide a comprehensive explanation of human experience and knowledge. Religion and science especially try to create these
Grand Narrative
The smallest unit of a written language, thus, a letter of the alphabet
Grapheme
This dramatical style had this structure: Prologue, Parados, Episodes, Exodus
Greek Tragedy
A branch of feminist literary theory which focuses on women as writers
Gynocriticism
A book designed to help travellers
Guidebook
Classy comic book
Graphic Novel
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