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• What Is Absurdism? Albert Camus and the Absurd
  Absurdism holds that people seek meaning in a silent universe, a clash Albert Camus described in The Myth of Sisyphus and answered with revolt, freedom and passion.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 a Bildungsroman? The German Coming-of-Age Novel
  A bildungsroman is a novel that follows a young protagonist's moral and psychological growth into maturity, a form named after the German word for self-formation.
• The Sonnet
  A fourteen-line poem form with fixed rhyme and meter, in its Italian and English traditions.