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The quality of literature : linguistic studies in literary evaluation /

Evaluation is central to literary studies and has led to an impressive list of publications on the status and history of the canon. Yet it is remarkable how little attention has been given to the role of textual properties in evaluative processes. Most of the chapters in The Quality of Literature re...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Peer, Willie van
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2008.
Colección:Linguistic approaches to literature ; v. 4.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The Quality of Literature; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; The evaluation of literary texts; Textual and generic comparisons; Canon formation; Why Hugh Maccoll is not, and will never be, part of any literary canon; Popular / Canonical; Literary evaluation and poetic form; Poetic value; T̀̀oo soon transplanted''; Evaluation and stylistic analysis; The value of Juvenal; Theoretical reflections; Some correlates of literary eminence; Macbeth through the computer; How scientific can literary evaluation be?