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  2. Literary Taste: How to Form It - Wikipedia

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    Literary Taste: How to Form it is a long essay by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1909, with a revised edition by his friend Frank Swinnerton appearing in 1937. It includes a long list of recommended books, every item individually costed.

  3. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    In literature, a work of fiction can refer to a flash narrative, short story, novella, and novel, the latter being the longest form of literary prose. Every work of fiction falls into a literary subgenre , each with its own style, tone, and storytelling devices.

  4. Varieties of criticism - Wikipedia

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    It includes discussion of the work’s content along with critic's insights gained from research. This may have a positive or a negative bias and may be a study of an individual piece of literature or an author’s body of work. [7] Literary criticism is not limited to plot summaries, biographies of authors, or finding faults with the literature.

  5. Augustan prose - Wikipedia

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    However, the general time represented by Augustan literature saw a rise in prose writing as high literature. The essay, satire, and dialogue (in philosophy and religion) thrived in the age, and the English novel was truly begun as a serious art form. At the outset of the Augustan age, essays were still primarily imitative, novels were few and ...

  6. Aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    Taste is a result of an education process and awareness of elite cultural values learned through exposure to mass culture. Bourdieu examined how the elite in society define the aesthetic values like taste and how varying levels of exposure to these values can result in variations by class, cultural background, and education. [ 22 ]

  7. Rasa (aesthetics) - Wikipedia

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    In Indian aesthetics, a rasa (Sanskrit: रस) literally means "juice, essence or taste". [1] [2] It is a concept in Indian arts denoting the aesthetic flavour of any visual, literary or musical work that evokes an emotion or feeling in the reader or audience, but cannot be described. [2]

  8. Taste - Wikipedia

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    Taste buds and papillae of the human tongue Taste receptors of the human tongue Signal transduction of taste receptors. Taste is a form of chemoreception which occurs in the specialised taste receptors in the mouth. To date, there are five different types of taste these receptors can detect which are recognized: salt, sweet, sour, bitter, and ...

  9. Styles and themes of Jane Austen - Wikipedia

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    While Austen steers clear of the formal moralizing common in early-19th-century literature, morality—characterized by manners, duty to society and religious seriousness—is a central theme of her works. Throughout her novels, serious reading is associated with intellectual and moral development.