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'Common-sense,' the Romantic critics told us, was all that was needed to understand and interpret literary texts. Today, we know this is not generally true. Modern criticism has joined with pre-Romantic criticism to expose common-sense as appropriate (because simple-minded), inadequate to comprehend and interpret verbal structures which are frequently 'non-[commonsensical,' anti-commonsensical, or even nonsensical. The difference between readers today and their earlier counterparts is that we have lost the full vocabulary of criticism and the consciousness of the literary and rhetorical devices with which texts are created. Yet these devices are still available to us, still practised even if unwittingly and on an impoverished scale. "Gradus," originally published in French in 1984, was designed to make good that loss, to reanimate those skills. Comprising some 4000 terms, defined and illustrated, it calls upon the resources of linguistics, poetics, semiotics, socio-criticism, rhetoric, pragmatics, combining them in ways which enable readers quickly to comprehend the codes and conventions which together make up 'literarity.' Skilfully translated into English, and adapted for an English-language audience with illustrations taken from an astonishing range of contemporary texts, literary and popular, drawn from literature, radio, television, and the theatre, "Gradus" will be a constant source of information and delight.
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Bernard Dupriez is professor titulaire, DÉpartement d'Études FranÇaises, UniversitÉ de MontrÉal.
Albert W. Halsall was Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Carleton University.
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University of Toronto Press, Toronto and Buffalo, 1991
ISBN 10 : 0802027563
ISBN 13 : 9780802027566
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First English Language Edition. Thick 8vo. xx, 545 (3) pp. Translated and Adapted by Albert W. Halsall. First English Language Edition, 1991. Not Price Clipped. 3 1/2" closed tear to spine dj, spine cloth slit about one and a half inches center vertical. also top hinge corner bumped, cloth creased 3/4" from top edge and around back 3/4" along rear - not readily apparent when holding book in DJ. else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight and square, clean, white and bright. 6" x 8.75". White cloth with black lettering to front board and spine. in uncliipped dark blue DJ with acetate protector. Size: Thick Octavo. Book. N° de réf. du vendeur 9410
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