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  2. Illustrated fiction - Wikipedia

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    A review of the 1915 film adaptation of Vanity Fair said that "the reels make a set of illustrations superior to the conventional pen-pictures of a deluxe edition." [11] Modern literary fiction was often not well-suited to illustration, for example the introspective novels of E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf. Illustrations were used on book ...

  3. Literature review - Wikipedia

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    A literature review is an overview of previously published works on a particular topic. The term can refer to a full scholarly paper or a section of a scholarly work such as books or articles. Either way, a literature review provides the researcher /author and the audiences with general information of an existing knowledge of a particular topic.

  4. Book illustration - Wikipedia

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    They required the illustrations to be printed separately, on a different type of printing press, so encouraging illustrations that took a whole page, which became the norm. Engraving and etching gave sharper definition and finer detail to the illustrations, and rapidly became dominant by the late 15th century, often with the two techniques ...

  5. Illustration - Wikipedia

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    Illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith (1863–1935) An illustration is a decoration, interpretation, or visual explanation of a text, concept, or process, [1] designed for integration in print and digitally published media, such as posters, flyers, magazines, books, teaching materials, animations, video games and films.

  6. Children's book illustration - Wikipedia

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    Children's book illustration is a subfield of book illustration, and a genre of art associated with children's literature. Children's books with illustrations are often known as picture books . Illustrations contribute to the children's development and provides them with aesthetic impressions.

  7. Wikipedia : Featured pictures/Artwork/Literary illustrations

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    See also: Culture, for illustrations of religious or mythological works. Directory of featured pictures Animals · Artwork · Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle · Currency · Diagrams, drawings, and maps · Engineering and technology · Food and drink · Fungi · History · Natural phenomena · People · Photographic techniques, terms, and ...

  8. Allegory - Wikipedia

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    In classical literature two of the best-known allegories are the Cave in Plato's The Republic (Book VII) and the story of the stomach and its members in the speech of Menenius Agrippa (Livy ii. 32). Among the best-known examples of allegory, Plato 's Allegory of the Cave , forms a part of his larger work The Republic .

  9. Book frontispiece - Wikipedia

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    A frontispiece in books is a decorative or informative illustration facing a book's title page, usually on the left-hand, or verso, page opposite the right-hand, or recto page of a book. [1] In some ancient editions or in modern luxury editions the frontispiece features thematic or allegorical elements, in others is the author's portrait that ...