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  2. Open form - Wikipedia

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    Open form is a term coined by Heinrich Wölfflin in 1915 to describe a characteristic of Baroque art opposed to the "closed form" of the Renaissance. [2] Wölfflin tentatively offered several alternative pairs of terms, in particular "a-tectonic" and "tectonic" (also free/strict and irregular/regular), but settled on open/closed because, despite their undesirable ambiguity, they make a better ...

  3. Form and content - Wikipedia

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    Form is one of the most frequent terms in literary criticism. It is often used merely to designate a genre or for patterns of meter lines and rhymes. For example, the subject of these two artworks is a bird, though both artworks are created in different styles.

  4. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...

  5. Closed form - Wikipedia

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    Closed-form expression, a finitary expression Closed differential form , a differential form α {\displaystyle \alpha } whose exterior derivative d α {\displaystyle d\alpha } is the zero form 0 {\displaystyle 0} , meaning d α = 0 {\displaystyle d\alpha =0} .

  6. Fore-edge painting - Wikipedia

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    The remaining artists that practice fore-edge painting are amateurs and leisure makers numbering fewer than sixty. According to the HCA, there are currently no formal trainees in the art form. Martin Frost in Worthing, United Kingdom, [22] is currently the only professional full-time fore-edge artist in the UK.

  7. Close reading - Wikipedia

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    In literary criticism, close reading is the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text. A close reading emphasizes the single and the particular over the general, via close attention to individual words, the syntax, the order in which the sentences unfold ideas, as well as formal structures.

  8. Closet drama - Wikipedia

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    The academic Marta Straznicky in 2004 described the form as "part of a larger cultural matrix in which closed spaces, selective interpretive communities, and political dissent are aligned." [ 3 ] Print is the crucial factor behind closet dramas: "a play that is not intended for commercial performance can nevertheless cross between private ...

  9. The arts - Wikipedia

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    The arts are considered various practices or objects done by people with skill, creativity, and imagination across cultures and history, viewed as a group. [1] These activities include painting, sculpture, music, theatre, literature, and more. [2]