Some basics. Mimesis ; Ambiguity ; Hermeneutics ; The Classic ; Intentionalism ; The affective fallacy ; Narrative/story ; Epic ; Lyric/prosody ; Gothic ; The translation paradox
Machinery : how it works. Culture ; Milieu ; Base/superstructure ; The canon ; Genre ; Closure ; Paradigm shift ; Ownership ; Critical authority ; Style
Literature's devices. Allegory ; Irony ; Imagery ; Allusion ; Defamiliarization ; Bricolage ; Metafiction ; Solidity of specification
New ideas. Structuralism ; Deconstruction ; Textuality ; Double bind ; Postmodernism ; Heteroglossia ; New historicism ; Postcolonialism ; Semiology ; Reception theory ; Sexual politics
Word crimes. Plagiarism ; Obscenity ; Libel ; Blasphemy ; Permissiveness ; Literary lies ; Ghost-writers
Literary futures. Fan-fic ; The e-Book ; Literary inundation.
