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Reader-response criticism is a school of literary theory that focuses on the reader (or "audience") and their experience of a literary work, in contrast to other schools and theories that focus attention primarily on the author, content, or form of the work.
Epanadiplosis is a figure of repetition affecting syntactic position (the order of words in the sentence). [2] For César Chesneau Dumarsais, the figure appears “when, of two correlative propositions, one begins and the other ends with the same word”, [3] or when, according to Henri Suhamy, [4] only two propositions are involved.
Philology (from Ancient Greek φιλολογία (philología) 'love of word') is the study of language in oral and written historical sources.It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology.
Antithesis (pl.: antitheses; Greek for "setting opposite", from ἀντι-"against" and θέσις "placing") is used in writing or speech either as a proposition that contrasts with or reverses some previously mentioned proposition, or when two opposites are introduced together for contrasting effect.
ELH (English Literary History) is an academic journal established in 1934 at Johns Hopkins University, devoted to the study of major works in the English language, particularly British literature. It covers developments in literature through historical, critical, and theoretical methods. The current senior editor is Jeanne-Marie Jackson.
Modern Philology is a literary journal that was established in 1903. It publishes scholarly articles on literature, literary scholarship, history, and criticism in all modern world languages and book reviews of recent books as well as review articles and research on archival documents. It is published by the University of Chicago Press.
Language and Literature is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes articles in the field of stylistics. The journal's editor is Dan McIntyre ( University of Huddersfield ). It has been published since 1992, first by Longman and then by SAGE Publications in association with the Poetics and Linguistics Association .
Polemic (/ p ə ˈ l ɛ m ɪ k / pə-LEHM-ick, US also /-ˈ l i m ɪ k /-LEEM-ick) is contentious rhetoric intended to support a specific position by forthright claims and to undermine the opposing position.