Literature & Literary Theory

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6 primes originate from Literature & Literary Theory and 10 more draw from it as a secondary origin — sort the Origin column to separate them. They span 10 subdomains; sort by that column to group them, or click any subdomain to filter to it.

Prime	Origin	Subdomain	Description
Anachronism	Also draws from	—	Out-of-time placement.
Archetype	Also draws from	—	Recurring pattern.
Close Reading	Primary	Literary Method	The disciplined posture of treating an artefact's smallest meaningful units as load-bearing evidence, suspending paraphrase until the grain is exhausted and binding every higher-order claim to cited marks.
Defamiliarization	Primary	Russian Formalism	Re-presenting a familiar object in an estranged form that breaks perceptual automatism, slows perception, and surfaces previously naturalised assumptions.
Design Patterns	Also draws from	—	Reusable solutions.
Fabula And Syuzhet	Primary	Narratology	The chronology of events and the order in which they are told are separable design objects, each optimizable for its own criterion.
Form and Content	Also draws from	Aesthetics	The relationship between a work's structure and its substance.
Golden Age Metaphor	Also draws from	Historical PeriodizationEvaluative Era Labels	A periodizing metaphor that casts a bounded past interval as an apex of flourishing or achievement through gold symbolism.
Hermeneutic Circle	Also draws from	—	Whole/part interpretation loop.
Juxtaposition	Also draws from	—	Placement to highlight contrast.
Metonymy	Primary	Rhetoric and Figuration	Referring to a thing via a contiguous element attached to it — part, locale, instrument, institution, address — with the substitution valid only while the contiguity holds.
Narrative	Primary	Literary Theory	Organizing events into a sequenced, meaning-bearing account.
Narrative Construction (in History)	Also draws from	—	Structuring history as story.
Reframing	Also draws from	Hermeneutics	Hold an underlying situation, artifact, or event fixed while replacing the interpretive frame applied to it, so unchanged material acquires different meaning, salience, evaluation, or action implications.
Sublime	Also draws from	—	Awe-inspiring emotional experience.
Unreliable Narrator	Primary	Narrative Theory	A source whose report is systematically distorted relative to the reality it describes, so the receiver must model the distortion rather than read the account as transparent.