Literary Studies

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4 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Literary Studies.

• Grook — A short aphoristic poem created by Piet Hein, typically combining brevity, rhyme or rhythm, irony, paradox and sometimes a meaning-bearing line drawing.
• Hybrid novel — A novel that makes multiple media or textual modes—such as prose, image, diagram, poetry or document facsimile—constitutive of its narrative form.
• Mock-heroic — A satirical literary mode that applies elevated heroic style and epic conventions to trivial, foolish, or disproportionate subjects.
• Ode — A formally elevated lyric poem that addresses or praises a person, event, object, or idea, with Pindaric, Horatian, and irregular traditions organizing voice, stanza, and rhetorical movement differently.