Intentionality and the New Traditionalism: Some Liminal Means to Literary Revisionism

by John T. Shawcross

Intentionality and the New Traditionalism argues that both the text and the author of a literary work are important to a cogent and full reading of that work. The author creates the text, which then leads the reader into a reading of it through its various elements or literary devices that have been consciously employed by the author. The author's presence is thus continuous in the work and important to it. Such elements and literary devices...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271028149
• ISBN13: 9780271028149
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"