A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z - Couverture souple

Dupriez, Bernard

 
9780802068033: A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0802068030 ISBN 13 : 9780802068033
Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 1991

Synopsis

'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-[common]sensical, ' 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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À propos de l?auteur

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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Éditeur
University of Toronto Press
Date d'édition
1991
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0802068030
ISBN 13 
9780802068033
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
277
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 1991
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