In this article I am going to light upon some important literary terms which are frequently used in English Literature and their inventors (who actually coined those terms). Hopefully this list will definitely help you to brush up your knowledge for different competitive exams:
1. Art for Art’s Sake by Victor Cousin
2. Dissociation of Sensibility by T.S.Eliot
3. Willing to Suspension of Disbelief by Coleridge
4. Negative Capability by John Keats
5. American Renaissance by F.O Matthiessen
6. Natyashastra by Bharata
7. Rasa concept by Bharata
8. Kavya Prakasha by Mamata
9. Dhvanyaloka or Suggestion by Anandvardhana
10. Vakrokti by Kuntaka
11. Riti, Guna, Kavyalankara by Vaman
12. Positivism by August Campte
13. Romantic by Friedrich Schlegel
14. Metaphysical Poets by Dr. Samuel Johnson
15. Upstart Crow is Robert Green
16. Cultural Materialism by Raymond Williams
17. Imagism by T.E.Hume
18. Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson
19. Horizon of Expectation by H.R.Jauss
20. Strategic Essentialism by Gayitri Spivak
21. Utilitarianism by J.S..Mill
22. Incunabula means Books published before 1501
23. Tension by Allen Tate
24. Strong Lined Poetry by G.M.Hopkins
25. Dictum ‘Life Imitates Art’ by John Ruskin
26. Theatre of Cruelty by Jerzy
27. Epic Theatre by Bertold Bretch
28. Theatre of Oppressed by Augusto Bal
29. Expressionist Theatre by George Kaiser
30. The Guilded Age by Mark Twain
31. Ambiguity by William Empson
32. Intertextuality by Julia Kristeva
33. Heteroglossia by M.Bakhtin
34. Dialogic Imagination by M. Bakhtin
35. Sublime by Longinus
36. Carnivalesque by M. Bakhtin
37. Jacobian Novel by Garry Kelly
38. Surrealism by Andre Breton
39. Decorum by Horace
40. The wasp of Twickenham by Pope
41. Theory of Avant Grade by Peter Berger
42. Chaucer of Scotland is William Dunbar
43. Poetic Justice by Rhymer
44. TouchStone method by M.Arnold
45. Pathetic Fallacy by John Ruskin
46. Theory of Population by Malthus
47. Provincialising Europe by Dipesh Chakravarthy
48. Egotistical Sublime is to William Wordsworth
49. Young Juvenile is Thomas Nash
50. Macabre element by John Webster
51. Sprung Rhythm and Curtal Sonnet and Inscape and
Instress are by G.M.Hopkins
52. Life Force by G.B.Shaw
53. Light of Asia is Admin Arnold
54. Only Connect by E.M.Forster
55. Sports of Time by W. Wordsworth
56. Orientalism by E.Said
57. Womanism by Alice Walker
58. Third Space by Edward Doha
59. Hybridity by Homi Bhaba
60. Reception aesthetics by Wolfgang User
61. Langue and Parole by Ferdinand Saussure
62. Interlanguage by M.A.K.Halliday
63. Difference and Defferecnce by Derrida
64. Signs by Saussure
65. Stock Responses by I.A.Richards
66. Deep Structure by N.Chomsky
67. Competency and Performance by N.Chomsky
68. Readerly and Writerly Text by R.Bathes
69. Ironic and Indexical by C.S.Pierce
70. Habitus by Julia Kristeva
72. Flaneur by Walter Benjamin
73. Chora by J.Kristeva
74. Simulacrum or Simulacra by Jean Baurdrillard
75. Subaltern by G.Spivak
76. Metahistory by Hayden White
77. Polyphony by M.Bakhtin
78. Hegemony by Antonio Gramsky
79. Theoretician of Sociability is Malcolm Braburry
80. New Historicism by Greenblatt
81. Feminism by Charles Fourier
82. Dadaism by Hugo Ball
83. Agnosticism by T. H. Huxley
84. Dalit by B. R. Ambedkar
85. Magic Realism by Franz Roh
86. Yahoo by Jonathan Swift
87. Pandemonium by John Milton
88. Feminist by Alexandre Dumas
89. Meme by Richard Dawkins
90. International by Jeremy Bentham
91. Realism by Champfleury
92. Theatre of Absurd by Martin Esslin
93. Utopia by Thomas More
94. Folklore by Willium Thomas
95. Gothic by John Giorgio Vasari
96. Objective Correlative by T.S.Eliot
97. Aesthetics by Alexander Baumgarten
98. Stream of Consciousness by William James
99. Bildungsroman by Karl Morgenstern
100. Problem Play by Sydney Grundy
101. Metaphysics by John Dryden
102. Metafiction by William Howard Gass
103. Poetic Justice by Thomas Rhymer
104. Deconstruction by Jacques Derrida
105. Affective Fallacy by W. K. Wimsatt and Munroe C. Beardsley
106. Intentional Fallacy by W. K. Wimsatt and Munroe C. Beardsley
107. University Wits by John Saintsbury
108. Sensuous by John Milton
109. Essai ( Eng. Essay) by Montaigne
110. Gynocentrism by Elaine Showalter
111. Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald
If any term is left don’t forget to mention in the comment section.
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Objective Correlative by TS. Eliot
Objective Correlative was coined by Washington Alston but was only popularised by T.S Eliot
‘Veil’, ‘Double Consciousness’ – W. E. B. DuBois
unreliable author:- Wayne Booth
Third space is coined by Homi K Bhabha not Edward Doha
communicative competence by Dell Hymes
Culture hegemony is a term used by Antonio Gramci
Imagism was coined by Ezra Pound