
How Literature Works
Kenneth Quinn(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 21. July 1992
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-333-56833-0 (ISBN)
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Description
This book uses important aspects of literary theory, including the structural characteristics of literary texts, the psychology of the reading process and the social function of literature, to illustrate their application to a wide variety of texts, many quoted and interpreted at length. 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Adult education
Illustrations
glossary, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
308 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-56833-0 (9780333568330)
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Content
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.