Poetry
This poetic device is the opposite of an end-stopped line.
What is enjambment?
This genre is a type of contemporary novel, but also a group of Shakespeare's late plays including The Tempest.
What is romance?
These two Russian terms have become a staple of narrative theory.
What are fabula and syuzhet?
This triad of Indian philosophical concepts influenced Anand Gandhi in making Ship of Theseus.
What are beauty, truth, and righteousness?
What is John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale?
This hallmark of the sonnet form typically appears somewhere towards its end.
What is the volta?
This was the subject of Eilert Lovborg and Thea Elvsted's lost manuscript in Hedda Gabler.
What is the future of mankind?
This 1924 legal case influenced the subject matter of Passing.
What is the Rhinelander case?
In a reader's report in the RBML collection, Toni Morrison responds to this author's manuscript.
What is Angela Davis?
"I would not wish / Any companion in the world but you, / Nor can imagination form a shape, / Besides yourself, to like of."
What is Miranda, The Tempest?
This metrical foot contains two syllables: the first stressed and the second unstressed.
What is a trochee?
This French novelist originated the naturalist school of literature that influenced Ibsen's plays.
What is Émile Zola?
This English author was the first to describe narrators in fiction as "omniscient."
What is E. M. Forster?
In Luis Valdez's Quinta Temporada, this is the "fifth season" that follows winter.
What is social justice?
"If this be error and upon me proved, / I never writ, nor no man ever loved."
This nineteenth-century French poet coined the phrase "Car je est un autre."
What is Arthur Rimbaud?
This American actor played a crucial role in popularizing Ibsen in Britain in the 1890s.
What is Elizabeth Robins?
What is Pamela?
In "Venus in Two Acts," Saidiya Hartman cites this novel as a model for how we can ethically engage with the historical past.
What is Kindred?
"You're quite certain. You don't mind my asking her? Not awfully, I mean? I see now that I ought to have spoken to you. Trust women to have their reasons for everything."
What is Brian, Passing?
This Italian word associated with Petrarchan poetics refers to longing from a distance.
What is lontananza?
Professor Kastleman played this genre of South African a cappella music as an introduction to Ubu and the Truth Commission.
What is isicathamiya?
The papers of this African American historian of the Harlem Renaissance are held at Columbia.
What is Alexander Gumby?
This critic coined the term "male gaze" in a 1975 article.
What is Laura Mulvey?
"What of the balls and concerts we used to know? Those were heroic days, so cosmopolitan."