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Literary Fiction: The Ways We Read Narrative Literature
Contributor(s): Farner, Geir (Author)
ISBN: 1623560241     ISBN-13: 9781623560249
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
OUR PRICE:   $47.47  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
Dewey: 809.3
LCCN: 2013036202
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (1.00 lbs) 336 pages
 
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Insofar as literary theory has addressed the issue of literature as a means of communication and the function of literary fiction, opinions have been sharply divided, indicating that the elementary foundations of literary theory and criticism still need clarifying. Many of the classical problems that literary theory has been grappling with from Aristotle to our time are still waiting for a satisfactory solution.

Based on a new cognitive model of literature as communication, Farner systematically explains how literary fiction works, providing new solutions to a wide range of literary issues, like intention, function, evaluation, delimitation of the literary work as such, fictionality, suspense, and the roles of author and narrator, along with such narratological problems as voice, point of view and duration.

Covering a wide range of literary issues central to literary theory, offering new theories while also summarising the field as it stands, Literary Fiction will be a valuable guide and resource for students and scholars of the theory of literature.