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 | | A literary movement in the nineteenth century of those who believed in “art for art’s sake” in opposition to the utilitarian doctrine that everything must be morally or practically useful. |
| | An imitation of a literary style, or of human action, that aims to ridicule by incongruity of style and subject. |
| | The compositional use of leitmotifs implies that the text is conceived, rather like music, as a weave of particular notes or even colours, rather than as a transparent imitation (mimesis) of the world, or as motivated by conscious intentions. |
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