Reading the Absurd |
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| Author:
| Gavins, Joanna |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7486-6926-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2013 |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $110.00 |
Book Description:
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The book examines a diverse range of literary texts, both prose and poetry, that readers identify as absurd and analyses the stylistic characteristics of this body of work using a cognitive-stylistic approach.It provides a coherent, linguistically rigorous examination of the discoursal features which characterise the absurd in literature.
The book examines a diverse range of literary texts, both prose and poetry, that readers identify as absurd and analyses the stylistic characteristics of this body of work using a cognitive-stylistic approach.It provides a coherent, linguistically rigorous examination of the discoursal features which characterise the absurd in literature.