Explorations in Poetics

by Benjamin 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804755140
• ISBN13: 9780804755146
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.3" x 9.0"