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Tag: connotation

Twelve Jokes from (if not by) Sigmund Freud

In 1905, Sigmund Freud published his book-length study, Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious. Here are some of the … More

A. A. Brill, analysis, ba-boom, connotation, jokes, Mark Twain, ouch, poetic language, psychoanalysis, psychology, Sigmund Freud, unconscious

Brooks and Poetic Language

“But the poet has no one term. Even if he had a polysyllabic technical term, the term would not provide … More

ambiguity, Cleanth Brooks, connotation, literary theory, paradox, poetic language, poetry, tension

 

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