The Structure of Literary Understanding
Cambridge University Press (1978)
Abstract
This is a paperback edition of what has become an important contribution to aesthetics and the theory of literature. The author analyses in detail how the reader responds to literature and how he begins to evaluate it. Mr Olsen characterizes literature as an institution and thus forges links with contemporary philosophy which sees all human action as ordered and defined by social institutions.Call number
PN45.O47
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0521217318 0521316316 9780521316316 9780521217316
DOI
10.2307/2219501
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