Gérard Genette, "Fiction & Diction"
Cornell Univ Press | 1993 | ISBN: 0801480868 | 176 pages | PDF | 29.05 Mb
Cornell Univ Press | 1993 | ISBN: 0801480868 | 176 pages | PDF | 29.05 Mb
One of the founders of structuralist literary theory, Gerard Genette here addresses the question of "literariness" -- of what it is that makes a text an aesthetic object. Published in French in 1991, Fiction and Diction explores the conditions under which a written or spoken text is perceived as "literature". With reference to writers and theorists from Aristotle to Moliere to Iris Murdoch, Genette investigates the different facets -- particularly "regimes", "criteria" and "modes" -- of literariness.
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