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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 ...

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How Literature Works 1992, Red Globe Press, London

ISBN-13: 9780333568347

Paperback

How Literature Works 1992, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

ISBN-13: 9780333568330

Hardcover