Comments on: 10 Literary Terms You Might Not Know http://blog.oup.com/2009/03/literary-terms/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:42:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Elizabeth http://blog.oup.com/2009/03/literary-terms/#comment-153662 Elizabeth Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:37:50 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=3794#comment-153662 Wonderful. The only one I'd know before was "fabliau." It's weird that there's even a name for the last one. For a while it must have been one itself! Wonderful. The only one I’d know before was “fabliau.” It’s weird that there’s even a name for the last one. For a while it must have been one itself!

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]]> By: Mental Escapes: Take a Journey to Middle Earth « RealDelia http://blog.oup.com/2009/03/literary-terms/#comment-149972 Mental Escapes: Take a Journey to Middle Earth « RealDelia Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:30:13 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=3794#comment-149972 [...] speaking of literary escapes, via the Practicing Writing blog, I came across this list of obscure literary terms. Fun stuff!! Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Interview: [...] [...] speaking of literary escapes, via the Practicing Writing blog, I came across this list of obscure literary terms. Fun stuff!! Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Interview: [...]

]]> By: Robert W. Franson http://blog.oup.com/2009/03/literary-terms/#comment-149890 Robert W. Franson Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:18:59 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=3794#comment-149890 Perhaps it is just the way my mind works (or plays hooky), but so often this literary jargon invites glimpses through odd windows: Adynaton - an inarticulate sailor aboard the Argo. Clerihew - a bird with a silly song. Hemistich - embroidery on a poetess' costume. Feuilleton - a harmless French anarchist. Jouissance - a castle in a France of fantasy. Flyting - fighting flights of fancy. ... and so on. Perhaps it is just the way my mind works (or plays hooky), but so often this literary jargon invites glimpses through odd windows:
Adynaton – an inarticulate sailor aboard the Argo.
Clerihew – a bird with a silly song.
Hemistich – embroidery on a poetess’ costume.
Feuilleton – a harmless French anarchist.
Jouissance – a castle in a France of fantasy.
Flyting – fighting flights of fancy.
… and so on.

]]> By: Percy Bisque Silly http://blog.oup.com/2009/03/literary-terms/#comment-149876 Percy Bisque Silly Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:30:27 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=3794#comment-149876 Dear Ms. Branch, I am O'ercome Leaf, Root and Branch; Hook, Line and Sinker. Woulds't Thou think to marry me? With trepidation and reflux, Percy B. Silly Dear Ms. Branch,

I am O’ercome Leaf, Root and Branch; Hook, Line and Sinker.

Woulds’t Thou think to marry me?

With trepidation and reflux,

Percy B. Silly

]]> By: Book Calendar http://blog.oup.com/2009/03/literary-terms/#comment-149871 Book Calendar Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:38:44 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=3794#comment-149871 Clerihew: T.H. White Was always right Because he writes From left to right a try anyway Clerihew:

T.H. White
Was always right
Because he writes
From left to right

a try anyway

]]> By: Levi Stahl http://blog.oup.com/2009/03/literary-terms/#comment-149863 Levi Stahl Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:12:09 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=3794#comment-149863 These are wonderful; a few were familiar, but most were all new. I love their specificity! Your list reminds me of one of the surprise pleasures of Roberto Bolano's <I>The Savage Detectives</I>, when, near the end, the young poet Garcia Madero reveals a hitherto unknown, and seemingly encylopedic, knowledge of obscure poetic forms. Again and again the novel has commemorated the forgotten, and Garcia Madero's loving invocation of all these forlorn forms serves as one last, totally unexpected memorial. These are wonderful; a few were familiar, but most were all new. I love their specificity!

Your list reminds me of one of the surprise pleasures of Roberto Bolano’s The Savage Detectives, when, near the end, the young poet Garcia Madero reveals a hitherto unknown, and seemingly encylopedic, knowledge of obscure poetic forms. Again and again the novel has commemorated the forgotten, and Garcia Madero’s loving invocation of all these forlorn forms serves as one last, totally unexpected memorial.

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