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Black humor
Black humor
Black humor refer to writing grotesque elements side by side with humorous ones in an attempt to shock the reader, forcing him/her to laugh at the horrifying reality of a disordered world. Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 is an example of the use of black humor, as well as the works of Kurt Vonnegut, Edward Albee, Eugene Ionesco, and Harold Pinter.
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Grotesque
Grotesque means the style of expression that is characterized by exaggeration, deformity, freakishness and disorder.
Catch-22
"Catch-22" is a novel by Joseph Heller.
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Black Coffee is an Agatha Christie novel.
Black, Ethan
Ethan Black is a mystery and suspense writer.
Black, Jarvis
Jarvis Black, a poet.
Blackburn library
All libraries in Blackburn, Great Britain. General and specialized libraries in the city of Blackburn.
Blackpool library
All libraries in Blackpool, Great Britain. General and specialized libraries in the city of Blackpool.
Blackwood, Algernon
Algernon Blackwood is a fantasy writer.
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Baroque
Baroque is a term used in literary criticism to describe complex or ornate literature in style or diction. Baroque works usually express tension, anxiety and violent emotion. The "Baroque Age" is a period in Western European literature beginning in the late sixteenth century and ending about one hundred years later. Baroque works: John Lyly's Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, Luis de Gongora's Soledads, and William Shakespeare's As You Like It.
Beat movement
Beat movement is a period featuring a group of American novelists and poets of the 1950s and 1960s, like including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. They rejected established social and literary values.
Belles-lettres
Belles-lettres is the French term for "fine letters" or "beautiful writing", often used as a synonym for literature, typically referring to imaginative and artistic rather than scientific or expository writing.
Bildungsroman
Bildungsroman refers to the German word meaning ""novel of development"". Also known as Apprenticeship Novel, Coming of Age Novel, Erziehungsroman, or Kunstlerroman, the bildungsroman is a study of the maturation of a youthful character, brought about through a series of social or sexual encounters that lead to self-awareness. When a bildungsroman is concerned with the development of an artist (as in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man), it is often referred to as a kunstlerroman. Examples of bildungsroman: J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Robert Newton Peck's A Day No Pigs Would Die and S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders.
Biography
Biography means a connected narrative that tells a person's life story.
Black humor
Blank verse
Blank verse refers to any unrhymed poetry or unrhymed iambic pentameter verse (composed of lines of five two-syllable feet with the first syllable accented, the second unaccented). John Milton's Paradise Lost is an example for blank verse, as well as most of William Shakespeare's plays.
Bon Mot
Bon Mot is the French term for "good word." A bon mot is a clever observation or witty remark.
Burlesque
Burlesque means any literary work that uses exaggeration in order to make its subject appear ridiculous by treating a dignified subject frivolously or by treating a trivial subject with profound seriousness.
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