Writers on political philosophy used a number of the literary genres characteristic of scholasticism, such as the commentary, the disputed question, the dialogue and the treatise (see the entry on literary forms of medieval philosophy).
His characteristic literary form was the "I novel" (watakushi shōsetsu), a work that treats autobiographical materials with stylistic beauty and great intelligence but is not remarkable for invention.
The poet Marc-Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant had already started the vogue for parodies of the classics, but Scarron is mainly responsible for making the burlesque one of the characteristic literary forms of the mid-17th century.
The fact that some literary books have classifiable characteristics (the newly-popular "Zone One" is a literary zombie tale according to "The New York Times") shows that genre fiction isn't viewed as merely different than literary fiction.
It's quite easy to feel, as others have, that the short story is the characteristic American literary form.
The introduction of Muslim intellectuals to Western literature and scholarship the Egyptian al-Ṭahṭāwī (died 1873), for example, studied in France ushered in a new literary era the chief characteristic of which was to be "more matter, less art".
Koenigsberger uses this example to discuss Homer's application of "a strategy characteristic of literary modernism".
Malapropisms are reasonably famous (or infamous), but what is less well known is that a malapropism is alternatively known as a "Dogberryism," after an earlier literary character with this characteristic: namely, Dogberry, the chief of police in Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing and the one who (inadvertently) manages to resolve the confusion generated by villain Don John's evil scheme.
Benchmarks: Applies reading skills and strategies to a variety of literary texts; Knows the defining characteristics of a variety of literary forms and genres; Makes connections among literary works based on theme; Understands historical and cultural influences on literary works This lesson plan may be used to address the academic standards listed above.
