Arts & Literature Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Citations in the Category Arts & Literature

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acheropoietoi n. Fountain is what’s called an “acheropoietoi,” an image not shaped by the hands of an artist. [Arts & Literature] [full cite] (Mar. 1, 2006)

aerosol art n. Mr. Beer said his work is not gang related and he sees graffiti (or aerosol art as he calls it) as art, whereas the symbols and numbers done by gangs or bored teenagers is vandalism. [English Arts & Literature] [full cite] (Oct. 23, 2006)

airplane book n. The man who has written 16 titles, sold more than 1 million copies in Israel and set up his own publishing house (Keshet) doesn’t care to have his titles labeled “airplane books,” a term used to describe a novel so fluffy it can be read entirely on a single flight. [English Arts & Literature] [full cite] (Nov. 8, 2007)

allegoricism n. “Isms” have long since become “wasms,” no longer capable of explaining the rapidly changing ideas and intentions of 20th-century art. Stephen Little’s Isms: Understanding Art… is, therefore, deeply unfashionable. It also stretches a point since he begins with the Renaissance, and sustains several injuries by straining to find “isms” everwhere. Ghastly neologisms result, perspectivisim and allegoricism among them. [English Arts & Literature] [full cite] (Nov. 28, 2004)

ARC n. And they kept coming and coming, sometimes in final form, other times in an early version known as arcs, and suddenly there were huge stacks, each bearing a Post-It note I’d created to separate them by month of publication. [English Arts & Literature Media Acronym] [full cite] (Jul. 7, 2004)

artcasting n. Museums, realizing this is a way to reach a younger generation of potential patrons, are racing to get involved. They are making their in-house audio tours of special exhibits, as well as original programming, available on their websites for free use on iPods and other MP3 players. And art lovers can listen through their home computers as well. There’s even a newly coined term for the phenomenon—"artcasting.” [English Arts & Literature Technology] [full cite] (Jul. 6, 2006)

Authorgeddon n. “Authorgeddon” one publisher has dubbed it—the dreaded day when authors will outnumber readers—and all indications are it’s coming fast. [English Arts & Literature New or Nonce] [full cite] (Feb. 2, 2006)

band fiction n. Like any other literary art form, band fiction is not limited to one “type” of story. You will, however, commonly hear stories referred to as “het” or “slash,” terms borrowed from the world of media-based fan fiction. In het stories, the rock star falls in love with (or just has lusty sex with) an original female character—or his real-life wife or girlfriend. The term “slash’ applies to stories where a canonically straight character is paired off with a member of the same sex—homoerotic stories, in other words, or at least stories with homoerotic tensions running through them. [English Arts & Literature Online] [full cite] (Jun. 10, 2006)

blessay n. I wrote a Frankenstein “blessay.” The reason there’s more “essay” than “blog” in that neologism is because there was more essay than blog in my contribution. [English Arts & Literature Online] [full cite] (Dec. 7, 2007)

blook n. A blook is a book serialized on a blog. [ Language English Subject Arts & Literature Media Technology] [full cite] (Oct. 11, 2005)

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