Reading the Absurd
Joanna Gavins, "Reading the Absurd"
English | ISBN: 0748670017 | 2013 | 224 pages | PDF | 1292 KB
English | ISBN: 0748670017 | 2013 | 224 pages | PDF | 1292 KB
What 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.
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