How to do things with fictions /

Why did Jesus speak in parables? Why does Plato's Socrates make bad arguments? Why do we root for criminal heroes? In mummy movies, why is the sceptic always the first to go? Witty and approachable, this book challenges the assumption that literary texts must be informative or morally improving...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Landy, Joshua, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Fiction > History and criticism.
Books and reading.
Roman > Histoire et critique.
Livres et lecture.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
Books and reading
Fiction
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chaucer: ambiguity and ethics
  • Mark: metaphor and faith
  • Mallarmé: irony and enchantment
  • Plato: fallacy and logic
  • Beckett: antithesis and tranquillity.

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