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  2. Quotation - Wikipedia

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    A quotation or quote is the repetition of a sentence, phrase, or passage from speech or text that someone has said or written. [1] In oral speech, it is the representation of an utterance (i.e. of something that a speaker actually said) that is introduced by a quotative marker, such as a verb of saying. For example: John said: "I saw Mary today".

  3. Verisimilitude (fiction) - Wikipedia

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    Verisimilitude has its roots in both the Platonic and Aristotelian dramatic theory of mimesis, the imitation or representation of nature.For a piece of art to hold significance or persuasion for an audience, according to Plato and Aristotle, it must have grounding in reality.

  4. Representation (arts) - Wikipedia

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    Mitchell says "representation is an extremely elastic notion, which extends all the way from a stone representing a man to a novel representing the day in the life of several Dubliners". [1] The term 'representation' carries a range of meanings and interpretations. In literary theory, 'representation' is commonly defined in three ways.

  5. Honoré de Balzac - Wikipedia

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    Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. [6] He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human.

  6. Erich Auerbach - Wikipedia

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    Erich Auerbach (9 November 1892 – 13 October 1957) was a German philologist and comparative scholar and critic of literature.His best-known work is Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, a history of representation in Western literature from ancient to modern times frequently cited as a classic in the study of realism in literature. [1]

  7. The Raven - Wikipedia

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    At one literary salon, a guest noted, "to hear [Poe] repeat the Raven ... is an event in one's life." [58] It was recalled by someone who experienced it, "He would turn down the lamps till the room was almost dark, then standing in the center of the apartment he would recite ... in the most melodious of voices ... So marvelous was his power as ...

  8. Ars Poetica (Horace) - Wikipedia

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    According to Howatson, many of the phrases used by Horace in Ars Poetica "have passed into common literary parlance." [11] Four quotations in particular associated with the work are: "in medias res (l. 148)", or "into the middle of things". This describes a narrative technique of starting the story from its middle point.

  9. Roland Barthes - Wikipedia

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    Many of his works challenged traditional academic views of literary criticism and of renowned figures of literature. His unorthodox thinking led to a conflict with a well-known Sorbonne professor of literature, Raymond Picard , who attacked the French New Criticism (a label that he inaccurately applied to Barthes) for its obscurity and lack of ...