It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.

Fans call a less extreme literary technique that erases one episode the reset button.

The cut-up technique is an aleatory literary technique in which a text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text.

The historical grammatical method is a hermeneutic technique that strives to uncover the meaning of the text by taking into account not just the grammatical words, but also the syntactical aspects, the cultural and historical background, and the literary genre.

Out of the Past ( 1947 ) features many of the genre's hallmarks: a cynical private detective as the protagonist, a femme fatale, multiple Flashback ( literary technique ) | flashbacks with voiceover narration, chiaroscuro | dramatically shadowed photography, and a fatalism | fatalistic mood leavened with provocative banter.

A false document is a literary technique employed to create verisimilitude in a work of fiction.

Significantly, with the development of the Female Gothic came the literary technique of explaining the supernatural.

* Tone ( literature ), a literary technique which encompasses the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work that is compatible with the other drive

It is generally agreed that Wright's influence in Native Son is not a matter of literary style or technique.

Becoming enamoured with Blanchot's literary style and critical theories, in several later works he adopted Blanchot's technique of " interviewing " himself.

Word play or wordplay is a literary technique and a form of wit in which the words that are used become the main subject of the work, primarily for the purpose of intended effect or amusement.

Sometimes called the " new " or " literary " sword and sorcery, this development places emphasis on literary technique, and draws from epic fantasy and other genres to broaden the typical scope of S & S.

Constrained writing is a literary technique in which the writer is bound by some condition that forbids certain things or imposes a pattern.

Ranging from plurals and literary technique to the distinctions among like words ( homonyms, synonyms, etc.

In the English-speaking world, the term " picaresque " has referred more to a literary technique or model than to the precise genre that the Spanish call picaresco.

A literary technique ( also, literary device, procedure or method ) is any element or the entirety of elements a writer intentionally uses in the structure of their work.

The Formalists, and particularly the so-called Russian formalists, focused on literary technique or devices ( in Russian priem ).

Irony, for example, challenges the distinction between a device and a technique because it refers to a handful of more-or-less easily identifiable literary actions, but also describes a recognizable but elusively complex attitude toward the subject of a whole or a part of a work of literature.

Using a specific literary device or technique in a type of work where, historically, it has been uncommon.

The tone of a whole work is not itself a literary technique.

As Solomon Schechter noted, " however great the literary value of a code may be, it does not invest it with infallibility, nor does it exempt it from the student or the Rabbi who makes use of it from the duty of examining each paragraph on its own merits, and subjecting it to the same rules of interpretation that were always applied to Tradition ".

As a term, critical theory has two meanings with different origins and histories: the first originated in sociology and the second originated in literary criticism, whereby it is used and applied as an umbrella term that can describe a theory founded upon critique ; thus, the theorist Max Horkheimer described a theory as critical in so far as it seeks " to liberate human beings from the circumstances that enslave them.

In the following epochs, Gurmukhi became the prime script applied for literary writings of the Sikhs.

Postmodernism is a general and wide-ranging term which is applied to many disciplines, including literature, art, economics, philosophy, architecture, fiction, and literary criticism.

" Deconstruction " is a Derridean approach to textual analysis ( typical literary criticism, but variously applied ).

New Wave is a term applied to science fiction produced in the 1960s and 1970s and characterized by a high degree of experimentation, both in form and in content, a " literary " or artistic sensibility, and a focus on " soft " as opposed to hard science.

The structuralist mode of reasoning has been applied in a diverse range of fields, including anthropology, sociology, psychology, literary criticism, economics and architecture.

The epithet " Wakefield Master " was first applied to this individual by the literary historian Gayley.

* Horror and terror, literary and psychological concepts, especially as applied to Gothic literature

Zunz " took no large share in Jewish reform ", but never lost faith in the regenerating power of " science " as applied to the traditions and literary legacies of the ages.

" Within a year, Magic Realism was being applied to the prose of European authors in the literary circles of Buenos Aires.

But with the publication of Jean Moréas ' Symbolist Manifesto in 1886, it was the term symbolism which was most often applied to the new literary environment.

His unorthodox thinking led to a conflict with another French thinker, Raymond Picard, who attacked the French New Criticism ( a label that he inaccurately applied to Barthes ) for its obscurity and lack of respect towards France's literary roots.

New Humanism or neohumanism were terms applied to a theory of literary criticism, together with its consequences for culture and political thought, developed around 1900 by the American scholar Irving Babbitt, and the scholar and journalist Paul Elmer More.

The term was later applied to maxims of physical science, then statements of all kinds of philosophical, moral, or literary principles.

Although there have been instances of traditional and literary journalists falsifying their stories, the ethics applied to creative nonfiction are the same as those that apply to journalism.

17th and 18th century burlesque was divided into two types: High burlesque refers to a burlesque imitation where a literary, elevated manner was applied to a commonplace or comically inappropriate subject matter as, for example, in the literary parody and the mock-heroic.

Together these cover antiquities from Ancient Egypt, Sudan, Greece and Rome, Roman and Romano-Egyptian Art, Western Asiatic displays and a new gallery of Cypriot Art ; applied arts, including English and European pottery and glass, furniture, clocks, fans, armour, Chinese, Japanese and Korean art, rugs and samplers ; coins and medals ; illuminated, literary and music manuscripts and rare printed books ; paintings, including masterpieces by Simone Martini, Olivuccio di Ciccarello, Domenico Veneziano, Titian, Veronese, Rubens, Van Dyck, van Goyen, Frans Hals, Canaletto, Hogarth, Gainsborough, Constable, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne and Picasso and a fine collection of 20th-century art ; miniatures, drawings, watercolours and prints.

The former theorists, who think the reader controls, derive what is common in a literary experience from shared techniques for reading and interpreting which are, however, individually applied by different readers.

A further sense in which the term is commonly applied, especially of British politicians, is in talking about an individual's depth and breadth of knowledge of other matters ( or lack thereof ), specifically of cultural, academic, artistic, literary and scientific pursuits.

" They utilized the similarity between organic bodies and literary phenomena in two different ways: as it applied to individual works and to literary genres " ( Steiner, " Russian Formalism " 19 ).

The distinction between horror and terror is a standard literary and psychological concept applied especially to Gothic literature and film.