Hubris Hubris, or less frequently hybris, describes a personality quality of extreme or excessive pride or dangerous overconfidence, often in combination with arrogance. The term…
Euphuism Euphuism is a peculiar mannered style of English prose. It takes its name from a prose romance by John Lyly. It consists of a…
Frame Narrative A frame story is a literary technique that serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, where an introductory or…
Prose Romances Precursors of the chivalric romance of the Middle Ages and the Gothic novels of the later 18th Century. Heroic or Evil characters, solitary…
Fiction Latin “fictio” means to form or act of making or moulding. Fiction is any literary narrative, whether in prose or verse. I.A Richardson has…
Transcendentalism is a philosophical movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in New England. A core belief is in the inherent goodness of…
Realism in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding speculative fiction and supernatural elements. The term is…