Peculiar Language: Literature As Difference from the Renaissance to James Joyce

Peculiar Language: Literature As Difference from the Renaissance to James Joyce image
ISBN-10:

0801420571

ISBN-13:

9780801420573

Author(s): Attridge, Derek
Released: Jan 01, 1988
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Format: Hardcover, 262 pages
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Description:

In a lively and provocative fashion, Peculiar Language addresses some of the most intractable problems implicit in discussions of the language of literature. In Derek Attridge's view, all attempts by writers, critics, and literary theorists to define such language have involved self-contradiction; literary language is both set in opposition to ordinary language and valued for its closeness to authentic speech.

























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