A Study of Literature for Readers and CriticsCornell University Press, 1948 - 240 páginas A study of literature is not an obscure book of literary theory; it contains abundent and pungent examples and critical analyses-ofprose fiction, of modern writing, and of the nature of poetry. "Its main purpos" as Professor Daiches says, "is to help the reader of works of imaginative literature to see what he is reading, to understand just what it is that he gets from different kinds of reading, and to discriminate between those different kinds." -- From jacket. |
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The Literary Use of Language | 21 |
The Nature of Fiction | 47 |
Art and Craft | 71 |
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