thematics
- noun
- /θiˈmætɪks/
- Specialized
- Richard Levin's 1988 critique of feminist writings on Shakespeare, "Feminist Thematics and Shakespearean Tragedy," elicited a convulsive and unprecedented response.
Examples
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But it will suffice for our purposes to note the polemical opposition between a thematics of the dilatory, on the one hand, and a thematics of intensity, on the other.
Academic text (1990) -
But it will suffice for our purposes to note the polemical opposition between a thematics of the dilatory, on the one hand, and a thematics of intensity, on the other.
Academic text (1990) -
Here we find the path that leads from structuralist poetics to fictional worlds; the path is called structural thematics.
Academic text (2006) -
But despite its artisanal production, its critical thematics, and its formal complexity, Extra did not place itself outside or opposed to the industry so much as intervene productively in it.
Academic text (1999) -
Structuralist narratology attempts to explain narrative figuration, or thematics, in terms of a perceived textual grammar.
Academic text (2000) -
Despite the overt skepticism, however, it is not the factual existence of past events that the thematics and the structure of these novels call into question, but only human ability ever to know the true course of history.
Academic text (2004) -
Existing general studies of madness in literature have approached madness from different points of view; we mentioned literary history and psychopathology, but we could have added psychoanalysis, deconstruction, thematics, and so on.
Academic text (2009) -
There is a domain par excellence in which to retrieve and re-state the thematics of climax: the set of texts identified by male-dominated convention as "erotic literature."
Academic text (1990) -
In its other link, thematics, and especially the concept of the fictive world, is a bridge between literature and the actual world: "Thematics is precisely that layer of literary structure through whose mediation the contents of the practical interests and period problems of a community exercise the most powerful influence on the immanent evolution of the literary structure" (168).
Academic text (2006) -
The professor emphasized the importance of understanding thematics when analyzing various literary works.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Thematics comes from the Greek word thema, meaning 'something placed' or a 'topic', and it is the same root as the familiar word theme. So thematics is the study or analysis of those themes in books, art, and film.