Unbranded All Books The Quality of Literature sku-8464378

Unbranded All Books item sku-8464378, The Quality of Literature: Linguistic studies in literary evaluation, is a new English-language hardcover with sewn binding and cloth over boards. ISBN: 9789027233363. It has 243 pages and is listed in Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 4.00.

Most chapters examine how textual properties figure in literary evaluation, using texts and genres from classical antiquity through the Renaissance to the twentieth century. They consider how debates over literary quality have shaped ways of thinking and feeling about literature.

Four theoretical chapters address literary evaluation more generally, and the introduction brings the arguments together.