Literary Analysis

How literary texts produce meaning: devices, structure, and interpretation.

Parent category: Literature

Articles (4)

• Catharsis in Aristotle's Poetics: What the Word Means
  In Aristotle's Poetics, catharsis is what tragedy does to audiences through pity and fear. Scholars still debate whether it means purging, purifying or clarifying.
• What Is an Unreliable Narrator? Definition and Examples
  An unreliable narrator is a storyteller whose account a reader cannot fully trust, because of limited knowledge, bias, or deliberate deception within the story.
• What Is the Hero's Journey? Campbell's Monomyth Explained
  The hero's journey, or monomyth, is Joseph Campbell's pattern of departure, trials and return that he found across world myths. Critics dispute its universality.
• Metaphor
  How one thing is spoken of in terms of another: the mechanics of metaphor, its varieties, and its role in thought and science.

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