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| From | wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | rec.arts.sf.written |
| Subject | Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms |
| Date | 2015-08-20 16:31 -0400 |
| Organization | PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC |
| Message-ID | <mr5dfs$ktr$1@panix2.panix.com> (permalink) |
| References | <20150820a@crcomp.net> <mr4t8a$j6i$1@dont-email.me> <mr518j$noc$1@panix2.panix.com> <61cdd1b8-33df-49ed-b700-358181582ba5@googlegroups.com> |
In article <61cdd1b8-33df-49ed-b700-358181582ba5@googlegroups.com>, petertrei@gmail.com said: > William December Starr wrote: >> Paradox is a literary term? > > Paradoxically, yes. That would be the "A statement that seems contradictory or absurd but is actually valid or true. According to one proverbial paradox, we must sometimes be cruel in order to be kind." (Definition lifted from some online dictionary.) meaning of 'paradox' then? (As opposed to, e.g., your basic acausal event or artifact in a time-travel story, like that poem in THE ANUBIS GATES.) -- wds
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13 Essential Literary Terms Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-20 15:47 +0000
Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms nance@math.ohio-state.edu (Anthony Nance) - 2015-08-20 15:54 +0000
Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2015-08-20 11:59 -0500
Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-08-20 14:26 -0400
Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-20 23:18 +0000
Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-20 13:03 -0400
Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms petertrei@gmail.com - 2015-08-20 11:02 -0700
Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-20 16:31 -0400
Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms petertrei@gmail.com - 2015-08-20 14:05 -0700
Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-08-20 15:37 -0700
Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2015-08-21 13:06 -0700
Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-22 03:57 -0400
Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) - 2015-08-22 07:01 +0000
Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms David Harmon <source@netcom.com> - 2015-08-20 09:20 -0700
Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-08-20 16:18 +0000
Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2015-08-20 09:32 -0700
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