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Subversion and containment is a concept in literary studies introduced by Stephen Greenblatt in his 1988 essay "Invisible Bullets". [1] It has subsequently become a much-used concept in new historicist and cultural materialist approaches to textual analysis. Literary critic Louis A. Montrose writes that the terms are often used to refer to the ...
Iceberg theory. The iceberg theory or theory of omission is a writing technique coined by American writer Ernest Hemingway. As a young journalist, Hemingway had to focus his newspaper reports on immediate events, with very little context or interpretation. When he became a writer of short stories, he retained this minimalistic style, focusing ...
Propaganda, a book written by Edward Bernays in 1928, incorporated the literature from social science and psychological manipulation into an examination of the techniques of public communication. Bernays wrote the book in response to the success of some of his earlier works such as Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923) and A Public Relations ...
Poem. "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" is an 84-line ode that was influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 's novel of sensibility Julie, or the New Heloise and William Wordsworth 's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality". Although the theme of the ode, glory's departure, is shared with Wordsworth's ode, Shelley holds a differing view of nature: [3]
Ishmael (Quinn novel) Ishmael. (Quinn novel) 266 p. Ishmael is a 1992 philosophical novel by Daniel Quinn. The novel examines the hidden cultural biases driving modern civilization and explores themes of ethics, sustainability, and global catastrophe. Largely framed as a Socratic conversation between two characters, [1] Ishmael aims to expose ...
In the United Kingdom, an unseen examination is an essay test in school or college, where the student does not know what questions are going to be asked in advance. [1][2] The student is required to answer questions based upon what they have learned over the course of their academic study. In contrast, in a seen examination the questions have ...
Habitat. Various. Huldufólk[a] or hidden people are elves in Icelandic and Faroese folklore. [1][2] They are supernatural beings that live in nature. They look and behave similarly to humans, but live in a parallel world. [3] They can make themselves visible at will. [4] Konrad von Maurer cites a 19th-century Icelandic source claiming that the ...
Unseen character. An unseen character in theatre, comics, film, or television, or silent character in radio or literature, is a character that is mentioned but not directly known to the audience, but who advances the action of the plot in a significant way, and whose absence enhances their effect on the plot. [1]