LITERARY TERMS - COINED BY
Sl.No |
Literary Term -Coined
by/Popularized by |
1 |
Absurd (Term) - Albert Camus |
2 |
Absurd plays - Samuel Beckett |
3 |
Aesthetics by Alexander Baumgarten |
4 |
Aesthetism (Aesthetic movement) -
Oscar Wilde |
5 |
Affective Fallacy - Wimsatt
& Beardsley |
6 |
Age of prose and reason - 18 the
century- (Term by) - Macaulay |
7 |
Agnosticism by T. H. Huxley |
8 |
Allegory (In Play First
employed by) - Marry Magdalena |
9 |
Ambiguity - William Empson |
10 |
Ambivalence (Clash of Thoughts/Culture
) :- Homi K Baba |
11 |
American Renaissance (Term first
used) - F.O Matthessem |
12 |
Angry Young man (Originator) -
William Cooper |
13 |
Anti establishment play - Mohan
Rakesh |
14 |
Anti- Masque.
- Ben Jonson |
15 |
Anti novel - Jean-Paul Sartre in his introduction to Nathalie Sarraute's 1948 work Portrait d'un inconnu
(Portrait of a Man Unknown). |
16 |
Aphoristic phrase style - Francis
Bacon |
17 |
Aporia - Derrida |
18 |
Arcadian or pastoral poetry -
Edmund Spenser |
19 |
Arche Writing (Developed by) -
Derrida |
20 |
Archetypal Criticism - Carl
jung |
21 |
Art for Art’s Sake (Term coined
by)- Victor Cousin - (from the French l'art pour l'art) |
22 |
Art for Art's sake (Given concept)
- Walter pater |
23 |
Art for life's sake (Given concept)
- Matthew Arnold |
24 |
Augustan (First Applied) : Dr.
Johnson |
25 |
Battle Bumpoo series / Leather stocking novel series (Cow boy image style) - -James Fany More Cowper |
26 |
Beat Generation - Jack Kerouac |
27 |
Bildungsroman by Karl Morgenstern |
28 |
Bilingual Method - Dodson |
29 |
Binary Opposition - Clade
Levi Strauss |
30 |
Biography (First writer) - John
Aurbey |
31 |
Black Humour : - Andre Breton |
32 |
Blank verse (First imitated) -
Thomas Wyatt |
33 |
Blank Verse -first used in English
drama - Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville in Gorboduc (1561) |
34 |
Blank Verse -first used in English
poetry : - Surrey (In his translation Aenied) |
35 |
Blue Comedy - Max Miller |
36 |
Bricolage - Claude Levi
Strauss |
37 |
Broad church (Expression)- A.H
Clough |
38 |
Carnivalesque by M. Bakhtin |
39 |
Character in prose - Thomas
Overbury |
40 |
Chaucer of Scotland is William
Dunbar |
41 |
Chora - Julia Kristeva |
42 |
Chutnifiction - Salman
Rushdie |
43 |
Classical comedy (Father) - Ben
johnson |
44 |
Close Couplet - Edmund waller |
45 |
Closest Dramas (Father) - Robert
Browning |
46 |
Closest Lyric - Samuel Daniel |
47 |
Collective Unconsciousness -
Carl Jung |
48 |
Comedy of Humour - Ben
Jonson |
49 |
Comedy of Manner (Employed first )
- Horace |
50 |
Comedy of manner / Ideas - William
Congrev |
51 |
Comedy of Menace (Term) - Iarving Wardle- borrowed from Campton's play The Lunatic View: A Comedy of Menace, in
reviewing Pinter's and Campton's plays in Encore in 1958. |
52 |
Comic epic in prose (Term to define
Novel) - Henry Fielding |
53 |
Comic Inferno - Kingsley Amis ( In his New Maps of Hell : A Survey of Science Fiction) 1960 |
54 |
Communicative Competence -
Dell Hymes |
55 |
Competence and Performance -
N. Chomsky |
56 |
Complete Printed Bible (First) -
Miles Coverdale |
57 |
Connectionism.
- Donald Hebb |
58 |
Cornivalesque.
- Mikhail Bakhtin |
59 |
Cow dung philosophy (Philosophy of
clothes) - Thomas Carlyle |
60 |
Cultural Industry : - Theodore
Adorno & Horkheimer |
61 |
Cultural Materialism by Raymond
Williams |
62 |
Culture and Anarchy - Mathew Arnold |
63 |
Curtal Sonnet (10 and 1/2 lines) :
Hopkins |
64 |
Dadaism by Hugo Ball |
65 |
Darwinism - Thomas Henry Huxley |
66 |
Deconstruction - Jacques
Derrida |
67 |
Decorum by Horace |
68 |
Deep Structure by N.Chomsky |
69 |
Defamiliarisation - Viktor
Shklovsky |
70 |
Dhvanyaloka or Suggestion by
Anandvardhana |
71 |
Dhwani - Anandavardhan |
72 |
Dialogic Imagination by M. Bakhtin |
73 |
Diaries (idea) - John Evelyn &
Samuel Pepys |
74 |
Difference and Defferance by
Derrida |
75 |
Discussion Novel [Form] - Sir
Thomas Love Peacock |
76 |
Dissociation of Sensibility and
Unification of Sensibility - T. S. Eliot |
77 |
Divine Right Theory - Bacon |
78 |
Double Consciousness - WEB Du Bois |
79 |
Double think - George Orwell |
80 |
Dramatic Criticism - G.B Shaw |
81 |
Dramatic Monologue (First used)
- Dante |
82 |
Dramatic Monologue (Master) -
Robert Browning |
83 |
Ecriture Feminine - Helene Cixious
(In The Laugh of Medusa); 1976 |
84 |
Egotistical Sublime - coined
by John Keats (Wordsworth has it) |
85 |
Elizabethan love comedy (Inventor)
- John Lyly |
86 |
Elizabethan Sonnet sequence (Idea)
:- Michael Drayton |
87 |
Empiricism (Empirical
science) - Bacon |
88 |
English Dictionary (First) - Dr.
Samuel johnson |
89 |
English lyric (First) - Sir Thomas
Wyatt |
90 |
Epic Theatre - coined by
Erwin Piscator |
91 |
Epic Theatre- used by Bertold
Bretch |
92 |
Epiphany - James Joyce |
93 |
Esemplastic imagination in
Agination - T.S Coleridge |
94 |
Essai ( English. Essay) by
Montaigne ( Father of essay- Bacon: Prince of Essay - Lamb) |
95 |
Euphemism - John Lyly |
96 |
Explanation of Dhwani - Abhinav
Gupta |
97 |
Expressionist Theatre by George
Kaiser |
98 |
Factory Novels (Conflicts between
poor & Rich) - Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell |
99 |
Fancy and imagination (First used)
- John Dryden |
100 |
Fate Theatre ( Human has no control
on life) - Thomas Hardy |
101 |
Felicity.
- Chaucer |
102 |
Female Gaze - Judith Butler |
103 |
Feminism (Grand mother) - Marry
Wollstonecraft |
104 |
Feminism by Charles Fourier |
105 |
Feminist by Alexandre Dumas |
106 |
Feminist Criticism - Elaine show
alter |
107 |
Fictional Biographies (Work known)-
Daniel Defoe |
108 |
First detective novelist- William
wilki Collins |
109 |
First English comedy ("First
prose comedy" Introduced by) - Gascoigne |
110 |
First slave narrative novel
(Oroonoko) - Aphra Behn |
111 |
Flaneur by Walter Benjamin |
112 |
Flat & Round character - E.M
Forster |
113 |
Folklore by Willium Thomas |
114 |
Free Forward : - I. A. Richards |
115 |
French Revolution (Father) - Rousseau |
116 |
French structuralism - Claude Levi
Strauss |
117 |
Garrison mentality - Northorpe
Frye |
118 |
Gas poem (Fake glory of war) -
Wilfred oven |
119 |
Gilded Age - Mark Twain |
120 |
Global Village - Marshal
McLuhan |
121 |
Gothic architecture by John Giorgio Vasari ( to distinguish the mediaeval period from the classic.) |
122 |
Gothic Fiction - Horace Walpole first applied the word ‘Gothic’ to a novel in the subtitle – ‘A Gothic Story’
– of The Castle of Otranto, |
123 |
Gynocriticism - Elaine
Showalter |
124 |
Gyres (Theory) - W.B Yeats |
125 |
Habitus by Julia Kristeva |
126 |
Harmless howthorne (Phrase used) -
Ralph waldo Emerson |
127 |
Hegemony - Antonio Gramsci |
128 |
Hegemony by Antonio Gramsky |
129 |
Heroic couplet.
-Chaucer |
130 |
Heteroglossia - Mikhail
Bakhtin |
131 |
High Disdain - John Milton |
132 |
High seriousness - M. Arnold |
133 |
Historical Novels (Father) - Walter
Scott |
134 |
Holocaust : - Winston Churchill |
135 |
Horizon of Expectation by H.R.Jauss |
136 |
Hybridity (Mixture of culture)
- Homi k Bhabha |
137 |
Hyper Text - Ted Nelson |
138 |
Idea of Vakrokti - Kuntaka |
139 |
Imagined Communities - Dr. Shyam
Anand |
140 |
Imagined Communities by Benedict
Anderson |
141 |
Imagism - coined by T.E.Hume |
142 |
Imagist theory (Propound by) - Ezra
pound |
143 |
Imgism - T.S Hulme |
144 |
Imperial Gaze.
- E Ann Kaplan |
145 |
Impersonality - T.S Eliot |
146 |
Incunabula means Books published
before 1501 |
147 |
Inductive reasoning (Applied to
prove the existence of God & Soul) - Descartes |
148 |
Inferiority - Adler |
149 |
Inscape and Instress - G M Hopkins |
150 |
Instress are by G.M.Hopkins |
151 |
Intentional Fallacy by W. K.
Wimsatt and Munroe C. Beardsley |
152 |
Interlanguage by M.A.K.Halliday |
153 |
Interludes (Most gifted author) -
John Heywood |
154 |
International by Jeremy Bentham |
155 |
Interpretive Communities -
Stanley Fish |
156 |
Intertextuality
by Julia Kristeva |
157 |
Ironic and Indexical by C.S.Pierce |
158 |
Jacobian Novel by Garry Kelly |
159 |
Jazz Age by F. Scott
Fitzgerald |
160 |
Jonathan old style - Washington
Irvine |
161 |
kavya Alankar - Bhama |
162 |
Kavya Alankar Sutra - Vaman |
163 |
Kavya Darshan - Dandhi |
164 |
Kavya Prakasha by Mamata |
165 |
Kinesthetic - F.R. Leavis |
166 |
Kitchen sink Drama - Harold
Pinter |
167 |
Langue and Parole by Ferdinand
Saussure |
168 |
Leather stocking Novels - James
Fenimore Cooper |
169 |
Life Force by G.B.Shaw |
170 |
Life Imitates Art by John
Ruskin |
171 |
Light of Asia is Admin Arnold |
172 |
Logocentrism &
Phonocentrism - Derrida |
173 |
Lost Generation - Gertrude Stein |
174 |
Macabre element by John Webster |
175 |
Magic Realism - Gaberial Garcia
Marquez |
176 |
Magic Realism.(Febulism)
- Fraz Roh |
177 |
Materialist Feminism - Monique
Witting |
178 |
Medical Gaze - Michel
Foucault |
179 |
Medievalism (First used) -
Ruskin |
180 |
Melodrama - Jean- Jeaques
Rousseau |
181 |
Meme by Richard Dawkins |
182 |
Meta History - Hayden White |
183 |
Meta Theatre - Lionel Abel |
184 |
Metafiction (Writer knows about the
literiness) - William H Gass |
185 |
Metaphysical (coined by) - John
Dryden |
186 |
Metaphysical Poets (used by)- Dr. Samuel Johnson (to describe John Donne in Lives of Poets) |
187 |
Metaphysics (Coined) - Izzak
Walton |
188 |
Metaphysics by John Dryden |
189 |
Mimicry (Imitation of western
culture) - Homi k Bhabha |
190 |
Modern English prose -
Halifax |
191 |
Modern short story (Father) - Guy
De mu pessant |
192 |
Narratee - Gerald Prince |
193 |
Natyashastra by Bharata |
194 |
Negative Capability - John
Keats |
195 |
Negritude - Aimee Cesaire and
Leopald |
196 |
Nemesis
- Christopher Marlowe |
197 |
Neo- Romanticism - Thomas
Dylan |
198 |
New Criticism (Pioneer) - John
Crowe Ransom |
199 |
New Criticism 9term coined
by)- J. E. Spingarn |
200 |
New Historicism - Stephan
Greenbalt |
201 |
New Journalism - Matthew Arnold |
202 |
New Romanticism (Pioneer) - Dylan
Thomas |
203 |
New Senciarity Movement (Reply to
Absurd literature) - Dimitri prigove |
204 |
Nihilism (Rejection of Religious
& Moral Aspects ) - Fredric Nietzsche |
205 |
Objective Correlative (Coined) -
Washington Allston, (American) |
206 |
Objective Correlative (first used
by) - Arthur Schopenhauer |
207 |
Objective Correlative (Popularised by)- TS ELIOT in his essay "Hamlet
and His problems" |
208 |
Objectivism - William Carlos
Williams |
209 |
Oedipus Complex (First used)
- Sigmund Freud |
210 |
Oedipus Complex :- DH
Lawrence (used in his novel Sons and Lovers) |
211 |
One man tragedy - Christopher
Marlowe |
212 |
Onegin Stanza - Alexander
Pushkin |
213 |
Only Connect (phrase) by
E.M.Forster |
214 |
Orientalism by E.Said |
215 |
Pandemonium by John Milton |
216 |
Parts of speech - Aristotle |
217 |
Passionate love poetry - Sappho |
218 |
Pathetic Fallacy - John
Ruskin |
219 |
Periodical Essays (Term first used
by) - George Colman) |
220 |
Picturesque Novel (Creator) - Thomas
Nash |
221 |
Picturesque Novel (Spanish word
Picaro means rogue)(Pioneered by) - John Lyly |
222 |
Plain unadorned & Direct prose
(Pioneer) - Voyagers |
223 |
plays of ideas / Social criticism
(play considered as) : G.B Shaw |
224 |
Poetic justice (Invented &
popularised) - Thomas Rhymer |
225 |
Poetry as Inspired mathematics -
Ezra pound |
226 |
Polyphony by M.Bakhtin |
227 |
Positivism by August Campte |
228 |
Post - Modernism - Arnold Toynbee |
229 |
Post Colonial Gaze.
- Edward Said |
230 |
Poulter's Measure (Term) -
Gascoigne |
231 |
Practical Criticism (Coined) - I.A
Richard |
232 |
Primitivism (Sex considered as
Religion) - D.H Lawrence |
233 |
Principle of General will -
Rousseau |
234 |
Problem Play by Sydney Grundy Shespearan Problem Play- term coined by Fredrik S Boas in Shakespeare and His Predecessors (1896) |
235 |
Problem plays (Originator) - Henrik
Ibsen |
236 |
Prolific & Devourers - William
Blake |
237 |
Provincialising Europe by Dipesh
Chakravarthy |
238 |
Pungent satire - john
skeleton |
239 |
Pure novel (Exponent) - Jane
Austen |
240 |
Quaint writing style (Quaint
= old fashioned style because of
its strangeness) - Charles lamb |
241 |
Queer Theory (1991) - Teresa
de Lauretis |
242 |
Rasa (Given 8 Rasas) - Bharata
muni |
243 |
Readerly and Writerly Text -term coined by
Roland Barthes |
244 |
Realism - term coined by Jules-Français Champfleury |
245 |
Reception aesthetics by
Wolfgang User |
246 |
Regency Romance.
- Georgette Jeher |
247 |
Regional Novel (Founder) - Maria
Edgeworth |
248 |
Religion of the world (phrase) -
D.H Lawrence |
249 |
Resonance & Wonder - Stephen
Greenblatt |
250 |
Revenge play (Originated from Roman tragedy, in particular, Seneca's Thyestes. Introduced on the Elizabethan
stage with Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy in 1587) - Thomas Kyd |
251 |
Rhyme Royal - Geoffry Chaucer |
252 |
Riti, Guna, Kavyalankara by Vaman |
253 |
Roman Catholism (Restored in
England by) - Queen Mary (Blood Mary) |
254 |
Romantic / Romanticism (First used
by) : Fredric Schlegel (German Poet) |
255 |
Romanticism is a liberation in
literature - Victor Hugo (term used by) - Victor Hugo |
256 |
Romanticism is Renaissance of Wonder and Mystery (Coined by) - Theodore Watts danton |
257 |
Satanic School - Robert
Southy |
258 |
School of Resentment - Harold
Bloom |
259 |
Scrutiny (magazine)- F.R. Leavis |
260 |
Senecan plays of blood - John
Webster |
261 |
Senghor Surrealist : - Guillaume
Apollinaire |
262 |
Sensuousness - John Milton |
263 |
Sentimental comedy - Richard steele |
264 |
Serendipity (means Pleasant
Surprise) - Horace Walpole |
265 |
Shanta Rasa - Abhinav Gupta |
266 |
Signs by Saussure |
267 |
Silver poets (Sidney, Wyatt,
Davies)- Gerald Bullet |
268 |
Simulacrum or Simulacra by Jean
Baurdrillard |
269 |
Sonnet - Thomas Wyatt |
270 |
Spots of Time by W. Wordsworth |
271 |
Sprung Rhythm - G.M Hopkins |
272 |
Stock Responses by I.A.Richards |
273 |
Strategic Essentialism - Gayatri
Chakraborty Spivak |
274 |
Stream of Consciousness -
popularized by- Dorothy Richardson & Virginia Woolf |
275 |
Stream of Thought /Consciousness (Coined) - William James (in The Principles of Psychology in 1893) |
276 |
Strong Lined Poetry by
G.M.Hopkins |
277 |
Structuralism (Popularised by) -
Ferdinand de saussure. |
278 |
Structured Method.
- Northorpe Fyre |
279 |
Subaltern - Antonio
Gramsci (Can a Subaltern speak- a book by Gayathri Spivak) |
280 |
Sublime by Longinus |
281 |
Surrealism by Andre Breton |
282 |
Sweetness & Light (Phrase) -
Swift |
283 |
Sweetness and Light - Jonathan Swift (in The Battle of the Books) and later by Mathew Arnold |
284 |
Tabula Rasa / Blank Tablet - John
Locke |
285 |
Tea and table school of fiction
(Founder) - Francis (Fanny) Burney |
286 |
Temperance Novel (Franklin Evans is
the only Novel) : - Walt Whitman |
287 |
Tension by Allen Tate |
288 |
Terza Rima - Thomas Wyatt |
289 |
The Angry young man - John
osborne |
290 |
The Archetypal Approach - Northrop
Frye |
291 |
The Art of Plot Construction (First
master) - John Lyly |
292 |
The Artistic hero - Oscar
Wilde |
293 |
The Celtic Revival - W.B yeats |
294 |
The comedy of Menace - Harold
Pinter |
295 |
The Death of the God ( Theory of
Extentialism) - Frederique Nitchehe |
296 |
The drama of ideas or Problem plays
(Exponent)- John Galsworthy |
297 |
The Guilded Age by Mark Twain |
298 |
The Heresy of Paraphrase - Cleanth
Brooks (in his book "The Well Wrought Urn") |
299 |
The Heroic couplet (Famous writer)
- Alexander Pope |
300 |
The Lake School of poets (Term)
- Francis. Jeffrey in |
301 |
The Lillustrious Vernacular
(Theory):- Dante |
302 |
The medium is the message (Concept)
- Marshal MC Luhan |
303 |
The Metaphysical School (Founder) -
John Donne |
304 |
The middle style (Pioneer) - Joseph
Addision |
305 |
The novel of incidents (Described)
- George Bolling Broke |
306 |
The Oppositional Gaze - Bell
Hooks |
307 |
The oxford movement - John
Keble |
308 |
The oxford movement / Tractarianism - John Keble |
309 |
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
(Founder)- W.H Hunt |
310 |
The Pre-Raphaelite- (father of
PRB) -D.G Rossetti |
311 |
The Religious Movement Methodism -
John Wolsey |
312 |
The School of Cultural Materialism
- Raymond Williams (Founder) |
313 |
The structural analysis sign -
Roland Barth |
314 |
The Theatre of Cruelty"
(Developed by): Antonin Artraurd |
315 |
The Theatre of Cruelty"
(Established by) - Henry Becque |
316 |
The Theological Movement/Trinityerism/ Transdantalism (Nature/God is one) - Ralph Waldo
Emerson |
317 |
The Third theatre (Street Theatre)-
Mohan Rakesh |
318 |
The Wasp of Twickenham - nick name of Alexander Pope ( because of his stinging satirical attacks on the famous
people of the age) |
319 |
Theatre of Absurd (Popularised)
- Martin Esselin |
320 |
Theatre of Cruelty - Antonin
Artaud |
321 |
Theatre of Oppressed by Augusto Bal |
322 |
Theatre of the Absurd - Martin
Esslin |
323 |
Theatre of Total Cruelty"
(Exponent): Jose Triana & Peter Weirs |
324 |
Theoretician of Sociability is
Malcolm Braburry |
325 |
Theory of Avant Grade by Peter
Berger |
326 |
Theory of Population by Malthus |
327 |
Theory of Third Space
by Edward Soja |
328 |
Third space (National identity)
- Homi k bhabha |
329 |
TouchStone method by M.Arnold |
330 |
Unforgettable sense of humour &
Comedy- John Glosworthy |
331 |
Unification of Sensibility- T.S
Eliot |
332 |
University Wits by John Saintsbury |
333 |
Upstart Crow (to criticize
Shakespeare)- Robert Greene |
334 |
Utilitarianism by J.S..Mill |
335 |
Utopia by Thomas More |
336 |
Vakrokti by Kuntaka |
337 |
Vatsalya Rasa (Perentel emotion)
- Vishwanath |
338 |
Victorian Compromise (Expression
first used) - G.K Chesterton |
339 |
Vigorous war lyrics - Thomas
Campbell |
340 |
Willing to Suspension of Disbelief-
by Coleridge |
341 |
Womanism - Alice Walker |
342 |
World English - Braj Kachru |
343 |
Yahoo by Jonathan
Swift |
344 |
Young Juvenile is
Thomas Nash |
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