| «As You Can See in the Text...» Which Passages Do Literary Scholars Quote and Interpret in «Gulliver's Travels»?: «Quotation Analysis» as an Aid to Un Contributor(s): Klein, Jürgen (Editor), Zöllner, Klaus (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631406967 ISBN-13: 9783631406960 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $75.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 1989 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 823.5 |
| LCCN: 89002761 |
| Series: European University Studies. Series XIII, French Language an |
| Physical Information: 349 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This study explores why certain sections in the literary classic -Gulliver's Travels- are quoted from and interpreted more frequently and extensively than others. It asks in what way such a -quotation analysis- can help to increase our knowledge about literary understanding, especially that of longer and notoriously difficult texts. The study shows that quotations in 74 interpretations of -Gulliver- concentrate on a few passages of the book only, most of which are used to extract and -prove- the structure, topic and overall meaning of the text. On the other hand, the same passages are often considered the most -problematic- ones, Their interpretations very clearly reveal the causes and the range of various possible ways of understanding a text, its -polyvalence- in terms of an Empirical Science of Literature." |