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On literature

Contributors

  • Translator
    Martin McLaughlin

On literature
First Harvest edition

Published 2005 by Harcourt in Orlando, Florida, USA .
Written in English.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix
On some functions of literature 1
A reading of the Paradiso 16
On the style of The communist manifesto 23
The mists of the Valois 28
Wilde : paradox and aphorism 62
A portrait of the artist as bachelor 84
Between La Mancha and Babel 104
Borges and my anxiety of influence 118
On Camporesi : blood, body, life 136
On symbolism 140
On style 161
Les Semaphores sous la Pluie 180
The flaws in the form 201
Intertextual irony and levels of reading 212
The Poetics and us 236
The American myth in three anti-American generations 255
The power of falsehood 272
How I write 302

Edition Notes

Other Titles
Sulla Letteratura
Copyright Date
2004
Translation Of
Sulla Letteratura
Translated From
Italian

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
809
Library of Congress
PN85.E4313 2005

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
x, 334 p.
Number of pages
344
Dimensions
7.9 x 5.3 x 0.75 inches

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24548207M
ISBN 10
0156032392
ISBN 13
9780156032391

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