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📙Intro to Contemporary Literature
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358 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to Contemporary Literature exam

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A

A Clockwork Orange
A Sand County Almanac
A Sound of Thunder
Absurdist fiction
Adrienne rich
Aesthetic theory
African American Literature
African Magical Realism
Afrofuturism
Afropolitanism
Agrippa (a book of the dead)
Albert Camus
Aldous Huxley
Aleatory poetry
Alejo Carpentier
Algorithmic composition
Alice Oswald
Alison Bechdel
Allegorical Hero
Alternative comics
Ambivalence
Amiri Baraka
Amitav Ghosh
Angela Carter
Anglophone Dominance
Animal Farm as an Allegory for the Russian Revolution
Anne Carson
Anne Sexton
Annie Dillard
Anti-hero
Art Spiegelman
Asian Magical Realism
Atwood's Oryx and Crake
Audience reception
Author's perspective and bias
Authorial intrusion
Autobiographical approaches
Autobiographical novel

B

Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl
Barbara Kingsolver
Barefoot Gen
Bellamy's Looking Backward
Biographical Criticism
Brave New World

C

Caribbean Diaspora
Catch-22
Cathy Caruth
Characterization through visuals
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Choose-your-own-adventure
Circular time
Citizen: An American Lyric
Cold War Anxiety
Comic effect
Concrete poetry
Cormac McCarthy
Creation myth
Critical distance
Critical Race Studies
Critical Race Theory
Cultural and religious symbolism
Cultural Appropriation
Cultural Capital
Cultural Conflict
Cultural Elitism
Cultural Hegemony
Cultural studies
Cut-up technique

D

David Foster Wallace
Defamiliarization
Descriptive imagery
Différance
Digital literary criticism