Explorations in Poetics

by Barbara Harshav

This collection of essays, originally published at different times, presents a coherent, systematic, and comprehensive theory of the work of literature and its major aspects. The approach, which may be called "Constructive Poetics," does not assume that a work of literature is a text with fixed structures and meanings, but a text that invites the reader to evoke or project a network of interrelated constructs, complementary or contradictory as they...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804755159
• ISBN13: 9780804755153
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages