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  2. Category:Essays about literature - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Essays about literature" ... Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation;

  3. Abstract (summary) - Wikipedia

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    The informative abstract, also known as the complete abstract, is a compendious summary of a paper's substance and its background, purpose, methodology, results, and conclusion. [23] [24] Usually between 100 and 200 words, the informative abstract summarizes the paper's structure, its major topics and key points. [23]

  4. Abstraction - Wikipedia

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    Those abstract things are then said to be multiply instantiated, in the sense of picture 1, picture 2, etc., shown below. It is not sufficient, however, to define abstract ideas as those that can be instantiated and to define abstraction as the movement in the opposite direction to instantiation. Doing so would make the concepts "cat" and ...

  5. Thing theory - Wikipedia

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    Thing theory is a branch of critical theory that focuses on human–object interactions in literature and culture. It borrows from Heidegger's distinction between objects and things, which posits that an object becomes a thing when it can no longer serve its common function. [1]

  6. Essay - Wikipedia

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    He notes that "the essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything", and adds that "by tradition, almost by definition, the essay is a short piece". Furthermore, Huxley argues that "essays belong to a literary species whose extreme variability can be studied most effectively within a three-poled frame of reference".

  7. Wikipedia : WikiProject Lists of topics

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    Welcome to the Topic lists WikiProject. This project deals with list article names with either of the words "topics" or "articles" in the title (e.g., List of Albania-related articles, List of economics topics, etc.). These lists fall into two types: alphabetical indexes of articles and hierarchically structured lists (outlines).

  8. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Wikipedia

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    Critical and Miscellaneous Essays is the title of a collection of reprinted reviews and other magazine pieces by the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle. Along with Sartor Resartus and The French Revolution it was one of the books that made his name. Its subject matter ranges from literary criticism (especially of German ...

  9. Abstract and concrete - Wikipedia

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    In philosophy and the arts, a fundamental distinction is between things that are abstract and things that are concrete. While there is no general consensus as to how to precisely define the two, examples include that things like numbers , sets , and ideas are abstract objects, while plants , dogs , and planets are concrete objects. [ 1 ]