
How Literature Works
Kenneth Quinn(Author)
Red Globe Press
Published on 21. July 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
XII, 288 pages
978-0-333-56834-7 (ISBN)
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.
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Edition
1992
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
410 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-56834-7 (9780333568347)
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Kenneth Quinn
How Literature Works
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07/1992
Palgrave Macmillan
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Kenneth Quinn
How Literature Works
Book
07/1992
Palgrave Macmillan
€61.39
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Person
Kenneth Quinn
Content
Preface.- 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.