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Home Dictionary Name: literatureElizabethan
Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth I or her times esp to the architecture or literature of her reign as the Elizabethan writers drama literature...
Barbarism
An uncivilized state or condition rudeness of manners ignorance of arts learning and literature barbarousness...
Belles lettres
Polite or elegant literature the humanities used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant...
Biblicism
Learning or literature relating to the Bible...
Celtic
Of or pertaining to the Celts as Celtic people tribes literature tongue...
Chef doeliguvre
A masterpiece a capital work in art literature etc...
Cinquecento
The sixteenth century when applied to Italian art or literature as the sculpture of the Cinquecento Cinquecento style...
Classic
Of or relating to the first class or rank especially in literature or art...
deconstruction
A philosophical theory of criticism usually of literature or film that seeks to expose deep seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning This method questions the ability of language to represent a fixed reality and proposes that a text has no stable meaning because words only refer to other words that metaphysical or ethnocentric assumptions about the meaning of words must be questioned and words may be redefined in new contexts and new equally valid and even contradictory meanings may be found Such new interpretations may be based on the philosophical political or social implications of the words of a text rather than solely on attempts to determine the authors intentions...
Dilettanteism
The state or quality of being a dilettante the desultory pursuit of art science or literature...
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