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Poetic imagery
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The sensory and figurative language used in poetry.
The object or experience that the poet is contemplating is usually perceived by him in a
to some second object or event, person or thing, to which he directs attention.
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Murasaki Shikibu
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Murasaki Shikibu, generally considered the greatest classic of Japanese literature, which is thought to be the world’s first novel. Her real name is unknown; it is conjectured that she acquired the sobriquet of Murasaki from the name of the heroine of her novel.
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Fairy
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Fairy, in folklore, supernormal being who, skilled in magic, could become invisible, change shape and size, and bewitch human beings.
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Blank verse
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Blank verse, unrhymed iambic pentameter, the pre-eminent dramatic and narrative verse form in English and also the standard form for dramatic verse in Italian and German.
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Black humour
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black humour, in literature, a kind of desperate humour that seeks to induce laughter as the ultimate human response to the apparent meaninglessness and absurdity of existence. Although the term black humour is a development of the 20th century, bitter humour has its roots in the extravagant satires of the 5th-century-BC Greek comedy writer Aristophanes, the picaresque tales of the Renaissance, and the satirical fables of the Age of Reason. Francois Rabelais used the techniques of black humour in his fantastic history of Pantagruel (1532), as did Cervantes in his tale of the mad but noble Don Quixote (1605).
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Plot
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Plot, in fiction, the structure of interrelated actions, consciously selected and
arranged by the author. Plot involves a much higher level of narrative organization
than normally occurs in a “story” or fable. According to E.M. Forster in Aspects of
the Novel (1927), a story is a “narrative of events arranged in their time-
sequence,” while a plot organizes the events according to a “sense of causality.”
In the history of literary criticism, plot has undergone a variety of
interpretations.
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Hermann Hesse
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Hesse, Hermann - novelist, poet, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, whose main theme deals with man’s breaking out of the established modes of civilization to find his essential spirit. With his appeal for self- realization and his aura of Eastern mysticism, Hesse posthumously became a cult figure to young people in ferment in the English-speaking world.
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Morales, Cristobal de
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Morales, Cristobal de (b. 1500, Seville— d. 1553, Malaga), composer who, with Tomas Luis de Victoria and Francisco Guerrero, was one of the three most important Spanish composers of the 16th century. His first post was as maestro de capilla at the cathedral at Avila (1526—29).
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