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Thursday, 13 April 2023

LITERARY TERMS /PHRASES - COINED BY

LITERARY TERMS - COINED BY



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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 The Edinburgh Review in August 1817

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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