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1 The Nature of Literature and its Historical Tradition Literature as Presentation of Experience Literature , like other arts , is essentially an imaginative act , that is , an act of the writer's imagination in selecting , ordering and ...
1 The Nature of Literature and its Historical Tradition Literature as Presentation of Experience Literature , like other arts , is essentially an imaginative act , that is , an act of the writer's imagination in selecting , ordering and ...
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The distortion serves to delight us through the interplay of imagination as well as to ... Imaginative literature may go so far as to create worlds and events which never have existed or never can . Recognisable and familiar incidents ...
The distortion serves to delight us through the interplay of imagination as well as to ... Imaginative literature may go so far as to create worlds and events which never have existed or never can . Recognisable and familiar incidents ...
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The imagination of England was stirred by first - hand knowledge of Africa , Asia and the Americas ; by knowledge of their cultures , climates , plants and animals . A measure for comparative analysis of European preconceptions and ...
The imagination of England was stirred by first - hand knowledge of Africa , Asia and the Americas ; by knowledge of their cultures , climates , plants and animals . A measure for comparative analysis of European preconceptions and ...
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Contents
The Nature of Literature and its Historical Tradition | 1 |
Narrative Fiction and the Printed Word | 39 |
Aesthetic Elements of Narrative Fiction | 48 |
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Understanding the Elements of Literature: Its Forms, Techniques and Cultural ... Richard Taylor No preview available - 1981 |
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