Reading the Absurd |
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Author:
| Gavins, Joanna |
ISBN: | 978-0-7486-7001-7 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2013 |
Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $39.95 |
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.