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Description
In How Literature Works important issues of literary theory are vividly illustrated by application to a wide variety of texts, many quoted and discussed at length. The theoretical aspects covered include the structural characteristics of literary texts, the psychology of the reading process and the social function of literature. The book also deals with such general questions as the relationship between literary texts and `objective' prose and the relationship between poems written to work as songs and those in which the lyric form is used to develop an argument: the singing and the speaking voice.
Table of Contents
A Particular Use of Words
How Fiction Works: The text that tells a story
The Singing and the Speaking Voice
The Poetic and the Prosaic Mind
The Writer as Moralist: The social function of literary texts
List of Technical Terms
Further Reading.
Product details
Published | 21 Jul 1992 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 288 |
ISBN | 9780333568347 |
Imprint | Red Globe Press |
Dimensions | Not specified |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |