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Page 49
... relationship one to the other helps to focus attention on the main preoccupations of the author . Action- the Ordering of Events There are a number of ways in which events can be ordered or interrelated but in each case the relationship ...
... relationship one to the other helps to focus attention on the main preoccupations of the author . Action- the Ordering of Events There are a number of ways in which events can be ordered or interrelated but in each case the relationship ...
Page 51
... relationship with those that are close to them in time , and , since fiction concentrates even more heavily on the logical and thematic relationships between events or episodes , an extra - chronological order of events is to be ...
... relationship with those that are close to them in time , and , since fiction concentrates even more heavily on the logical and thematic relationships between events or episodes , an extra - chronological order of events is to be ...
Page 173
... relationship . Synecdoche , however , is not restricted to physical relationship and in the line , ' Give us this Poetry and the Music of Speech 173.
... relationship . Synecdoche , however , is not restricted to physical relationship and in the line , ' Give us this Poetry and the Music of Speech 173.
Contents
The Nature of Literature and its Historical Tradition | 1 |
Narrative Fiction and the Printed Word | 39 |
Drama and the Theatre | 101 |
Copyright | |
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Understanding the Elements of Literature: Its Forms, Techniques and Cultural ... Richard Taylor No preview available - 1981 |
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