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  2. Paradox (literature) - Wikipedia

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    In literature, the paradox is an anomalous juxtaposition of incongruous ideas for the sake of striking exposition or unexpected insight. It functions as a method of literary composition and analysis that involves examining apparently contradictory statements and drawing conclusions either to reconcile them or to explain their presence.

  3. On Contradiction - Wikipedia

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    Unity of opposites" allows for a balance of contradiction. A most basic example of the cycle of contradiction is life and death. There are contradictions that can be found in mechanics, mathematics, science, social life, etc. [ 10 ] Deborin claims that there is only difference found in the world.

  4. Paradox - Wikipedia

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    One example occurs in the liar paradox, which is commonly formulated as the self-referential statement "This statement is false". [16] Another example occurs in the barber paradox, which poses the question of whether a barber who shaves all and only those who do not shave themselves will shave himself. In this paradox, the barber is a self ...

  5. Organic unity - Wikipedia

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    The concept of organic unity gained popularity through the New Critics movement. Cleanth Brooks played an integral role in modernizing the organic unity principle. In The Well Wrought Urn , Brooks used the poem " The Canonization " by John Donne as an example to relate the importance of a work’s ability to flow and maintain a theme, so that ...

  6. Volta (literature) - Wikipedia

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    In "Levels and Opposites: Structure in Poetry", Randall Jarrell says that "a successful poem starts in one position and ends at a very different one, often a contradictory or opposite one; yet there has been no break in the unity of the poem". [13] Such a transition is executed by the turn.

  7. Seven Types of Ambiguity - Wikipedia

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    Seven Types of Ambiguity is a work of literary criticism by William Empson which was first published in 1930. It was one of the most influential critical works of the 20th century and was a key foundation work in the formation of the New Criticism school. [ 1 ]

  8. Form and content - Wikipedia

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    Form is one of the most frequent terms in literary criticism. It is often used merely to designate a genre or for patterns of meter lines and rhymes. For example, the subject of these two artworks is a bird, though both artworks are created in different styles.

  9. Literary criticism - Wikipedia

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    Literary criticism is often published in essay or book form. Academic literary critics teach in literature departments and publish in academic journals, and more popular critics publish their reviews in broadly circulating periodicals such as The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, the London ...