Frequently Used Literary Terms and Titles

(these pages under construction)


Major Authors


Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Sherman Alexie, Reservation BluesOscar Wilde, The Art of LyingAlice Walker, The Color PurpleLord Byron, Don JuanMaxine Hong Kingston, The Woman WarriorEmily Dickinson,  PoemsJames Baldwin, Blues for Mister Charlie

 


Movements & Periods

The Middle Ages

Renaissance and Early Modern

Restoration

Enlightenment/
Eighteenth Century

Romanticism

Victorian Period

Realism

Naturalism

Symbolism

Modernism

Postmodernism

   

Major Authors


William ShakespeareJane Austen, EmmaJack Kerouac, On the RoadNaguib Mahfouz, The Cairo TrilogyChaucer, Canterbury TalesToni Morrison, BelovedJudith Butler, Gender TroubleWilliam Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads
 

Genres

The English Language

Biography/Autobiography

Drama

Epic

Essay

Film

Poetry

Fiction

Novel

 

Areas & Fields

African American Studies

Asian American Studies

Composition

Creative Writing

Cultural Studies

Linguistics

Native American Studies

Rhetoric

 

 

Revised: September 20, 2002

Contact: Prof. Christine Roth or Cary Henson