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Alphabetical Index to Terms |
Numbered headings
The Seventeenth Century:
Religious Reformation & Warfare
(1600s)
17th Century compared to 18th Century
17th Century > Enlightenment > Romanticism
A
acculturation
aesthetics
African American history as minority or immigrant
Afro-Caribbean Immigrants
agora
Alien Contact (scenario
for Literature of the Future)
allegory
alliteration
allusion
alternative histories and futures
American Dream
American exceptionalism
American Indians as minority and / or immigrant
American Renaissance
analogy
anaphora
anecdote
antiphon, antiphony, antiphonal
antiquarian, antiquarianism
aphorism
aposiopesis
arabesque
argument
assimilation
associational logic
assonance
B
ballad
biographical fallacy
Bollywood
Byronic hero
C
camp meeting
cannibal
canon
captivity narrative
caste
catalog
catharsis
Character & Characterization
chiasmus
Christian Humanism
civil disobedience
civics
civil disobedience
classic, popular, & representative literature
close reading / formalism
colonialism
color code
comedy
conspiracy theory
contract
convention
correspondence
cosmopolitan
covenant
counter-utopian tradition
covenant
Creation and Creationism
Creation and Apocalypse
creative nonfiction
critical thinking
cultural narrative
cyberpunk
D
deadpan
decline and progress
defamiliarization
definition (incl working definition)
Deism
demographics
Demographic Transition
Desire & Loss
Detective story
dialectic
dialogue
diaspora
diction
didactic
dithyramb
dominant culture (USA)
dominant culture waves
of immigration
domestic literature
double entendre
double language
doppelganger
"The Dream" of African America
E
ecology
eidetic
Electra Complex
emulation
the Enlightenment
escapism, escape fiction
ephemeral
epode
escapism
extra-terrestrial life
euphemism
Evangelical and Mainline Churches
evolution
exposition
expressionism
F
Faction
Fair & Dark Lady
Fantasy
Fermi Paradox
fiction
figures of speech
film noir
Flying Africans
form
Formalism
Formal Verse
Free Verse
Frida Kahlo
Future Narratives Compared
G
genres, introduction
the Golden Age
gothic
gothic variations, esp. in American literature
grace
graphic elements
the Great Awakening(s)
the grotesque
H
hamartia
Harlem Renaissance
Hermae
High Tech Future Scenario, +- Cyberpunk style
Hispanic / Latino
historical fiction
historicism
honor
hubris
humanism
hyperaesthesia
hyperbole
I
idiom
image
immigrant narrative / culture
immigration waves
incongruity
innuendo
intellect
interest
inter-racial buddies
intertextuality
irony
J
K
kleptocracy
L
legend
libation
literary purposes, devices, techniques, and styles
literary fiction
Literature as entertainment +
education
Literature of Ideas
liturgy
Local Color / Regionalism
Loss & Survival (American Indian narrative)
Low Tech or actual reality (scenario for
Literature
of the Future)
lyric poetry
M
magic realism
"make love"
La Malinche
Manichaeism
Marked & Unmarked
masque
master-servant
maze / labyrinth
melodrama
melting pot
meritocracy
mestizo
metaphor
meter
metonym / metonymy
metropolis
Mexican Americans as immigrant, minority, or both
millennialism
mimesis
minority
model minority
mixed metaphor
model minority
Modernism
modernity & tradition
multiculturalism
mystery
myth criticism
N
narrative
narrative genres
National Migration
Nazarite
Negritude
Neo-Colonialism
New Criticism
the New World & the Old World
New-World Immigrant
Nonfiction
North Star
nostalgia
novel
novella
Novel of Manners
Voices of the Novel
O
Oedipal Complex / Conflict
onomatopoeia
Oral or Spoken-Word Cultures
Original Sin
Origin Stories & Creation Stories
Orpheus
P
pageantry
Pan (Greek God)
Partition of India
pastiche
Periods of culture, art, literature
persona
personification
phantasmagoric style
picturesque / The Picturesque
pigmentocracy
Pilgrims
plain style
plethora
plantation
pluralism
poetry
polysyndeton
postcolonialism
post-structuralism
profit motive
Prometheus
prophecy
prosody
providence / Providence
pun
Q
R
Race / Ethnicity
Realism / realism
Reality Effect
reductive or reductionist thinking
refugee
Renaissance
retablos
right
romance
Romantic Comedy
Romanticism
romanticize
Romantic rhetoric and diction
S
sarcasm
satire
satyr
scatology and scatological humor
scenario
science fiction
Scientific Revolution
Scots-Irish
scripture
self & other
semiotics
sensorium
sentiment
sentimental stereotype
Sioux
situation comedy or sitcom
slapstick
slave narrative
Social Contract
Social Darwinism
spectacle
spoken / written cultures
standards: academic and popular
stereotype
Strong Man
style
subject-object
subjectivity
the sublime
subsistence
symbol
syncretism
synesthesia
syntax
T
terms
texts & textiles
textuality
tone
topicality
tract
tragedy
tragedy modernizes
Tragic Flaw
the Tragic Mulatto
tradition & modernity
trans-Atlantic
transcendence
Transcendentalism
Transfiguration
transnational migration
trickster
trope
tunic, toga
typology
U
Unitarian
Utopian author(s)
Utopian Pasts (USA)
Utopian / Dystopian conventions (genre)
Utopias, Dystopias, & Ecotopias
Utopian
Literature & Communities
Utopian motives
V
verisimilitude
vicarious
Viewpoint, point of view, perspective
voluntary simplicity
W
wampum
white flight
wit & humor
wordplay
X
Y
Z
academic & popular standards
