Total Syntax

by Barrett Watten and Professor Barrett Watten

Total Syntax is not "literary criticism" in the habitual, apolitical sense of discovering patterns in writing or deal­ing with author's emotions or overlaying a work's themes onto a preexisting socio­logical grid. Instead, literature is seen not as an institution but as an act, one in which writing of necessity must remold itself at all points--from syntax between words to the kinds of interactive changes that take place between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809311798
• ISBN13: 9780809311798
• Release Date: December 1984
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"