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  2. Salinger v. Random House, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    The court observed that a biographer may copy facts from an unpublished letter without risk but has no inherent right to copy the author's protected expression from such a letter, even as a means of illustrating the author's style. The court found that the fact of not being published was a critical element of the nature of the copyrighted work.

  3. Suspension of disbelief - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a philosopher and poet known for his influence on English literature, coined the turn-of-phrase and elaborated upon it.. Suspension of disbelief is the avoidance—often described as willing—of critical thinking and logic in understanding something that is unreal or impossible in reality, such as something in a work of speculative fiction, in order to believe it for ...

  4. George Barrington - Wikipedia

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    Barrington in The Chronicles of Newgate, ed. Arthur Griffiths. George Barrington caught picking the pocket of Count Orlov, Covent Garden Theatre. Barrington was born at Maynooth in County Kildare, son either of a working silversmith named Waldron, or of Captain Barrington, an English troop commander.

  5. Gamebook - Wikipedia

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    Barring the aforementioned works of Dennis Guerrier in the 1960s, one of the earliest examples of the form is the five-volume Barcelona, Maxima Discrecion series, which adapted the noir fiction genre to an interactive form. [44] Published in the 1980s, this series was only available in Catalan and Spanish.

  6. Lyric essay - Wikipedia

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    Lyric Essay is a literary hybrid that combines elements of poetry, essay, and memoir. [1] The lyric essay is a relatively new form of creative nonfiction. John D’Agata and Deborah Tall published a definition of the lyric essay in the Seneca Review in 1997: "The lyric essay takes from the prose poem in its density and shapeliness, its distillation of ideas and musicality of language."

  7. Biographical criticism - Wikipedia

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    Biographical criticism is a form of literary criticism which analyzes a writer's biography to show the relationship between the author's life and their literary works. [2] Biographical criticism is often associated with historical-biographical criticism , [ 3 ] a critical method that "sees a literary work chiefly, if not exclusively, as a ...

  8. Rhetorical modes - Wikipedia

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    Examples are the satiric mode, the ironic, the comic, the pastoral, and the didactic. [ 2 ] Frederick Crews uses the term to mean a type of essay and categorizes essays as falling into four types, corresponding to four basic functions of prose: narration , or telling; description , or picturing; exposition , or explaining; and argument , or ...

  9. Historical negationism - Wikipedia

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    [7] [8] Notable examples of negationism include denials of the Holocaust, Nakba, Holodomor, Armenian genocide, the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, and the clean Wehrmacht myth. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In literature, it has been imaginatively depicted in some works of fiction , such as Nineteen Eighty-Four , by George Orwell .