50 Ideas You Really Need to Know 50 Literature Ideas you Really Need to Know is a guide to all the important forms, concepts, themes and movements in literature. There will be concise essays on a wide variety of literary concepts among the 50 entries, and everything you need to know about literary techniques and genres. Written by one of Britain"s best-known literary experts, this book will be welcomed by anyone who wants a key to how literature works. Concepts covered include: Mimesis; Tragedy; Comedy; Epic; Imagination; Style; Base/superstructure; Realism; Rhetoric; Verse; Genre; Logic; Romanticism; Satire; Imagery; Narrative; Authorship; Irony; Hermeneutics; Censorship; Historicism; Modernism; Allegory; Semiotics; Neologism; Queer theory; Marxism; Feminism; Heroism; Postcolonialism.