Reading the Absurd / / Joanna Gavins.
Challenges traditional scholarship on absurdist literature, privileging the reader and the genre's stylistic achievementsWhat is the literary absurd? What are its key textual features? How can it be analysed? How do different readers respond to absurdist literature?Taking the theories and metho...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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| Summary: | Challenges traditional scholarship on absurdist literature, privileging the reader and the genre's stylistic achievementsWhat is the literary absurd? What are its key textual features? How can it be analysed? How do different readers respond to absurdist literature?Taking the theories and methodologies of stylistics as its underlying analytical framework, Reading the Absurd tackles each of these questions. Selected key works in English literature are examined in depth to reveal significant aspects of absurd style. Its analytical approach combines stylistic inquiry with a cognitive perspective on language, literature and reading which sheds new light on the human experience of literary reading. By exploring the literary absurd as a linguistic and experiential phenomena, while at the same time reflecting upon its essential historical and cultural situation, Joanna Gavins brings a new perspective to the absurd aesthetic. |
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| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9780748669271 9783110780468 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9780748669271 |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Joanna Gavins. |