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Printable version; In other projects ... move to sidebar hide. Help. Literary themes in works of fiction Subcategories. This category has the following 6 ...
One of the many perennial themes in literature is bildungsroman, a story set during, or about, the coming of age of the protagonist(s). The Popularity Papers, as a novel about two middle school girls, certainly qualifies as such. In their many expeditions to determine the essence of popularity in junior high, Julie and Lydia have a multitude of ...
In contemporary literary studies, a theme is a central topic, subject, or message within a narrative. [1] Themes can be divided into two categories: a work's thematic concept is what readers "think the work is about" and its thematic statement being "what the work says about the subject". [2] Themes are often distinguished from premises.
Middle-earth: J. R. R. Tolkien: The setting for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. See also Arda, of which Middle-earth is a part. The Hobbit: 1937: N P F R C G V Mid-World: Stephen King: The setting for King's The Dark Tower novel series "The Little Sisters of Eluria" 1998: N C V F Mushroom Kingdom: Shigeru Miyamoto: Primary setting of the ...
Literary movements are a way to divide literature into categories of similar philosophical, topical, or aesthetic features, as opposed to divisions by genre or period. Like other categorizations, literary movements provide language for comparing and discussing literary works. These terms are helpful for curricula or anthologies. [1]
Literary themes identified by Tolkien scholars analysing his Middle-earth fiction Pages in category "Middle-earth themes" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis. [1] Since the 19th century, literary scholarship includes literary theory and considerations of intellectual history , moral philosophy, social philosophy, and interdisciplinary themes relevant to how people interpret meaning . [ 1 ]
Ernst Robert Curtius studied topoi as "commonplaces", themes common to orators and writers who re-worked them according to occasion, e.g., in classical antiquity the observation that "all must die" was a topos in consolatory oratory, for in facing death the knowledge that death comes even to great men brings comfort. [2]