... suggest visual images at all for example. All these distinctions between literature and non-literature: personal expression, realization, lack of practical purpose and fictionality are restatements within a framework of semantic analysis of age old aesthetic terms such as: unity in variety, aesthetic distance, framing, invention and imitation. Literary work is not a simple object but rather a highly complex organization of a stratified character ... with multiple meanings and relationships. Literature "organized violence committed on ordinary speech" (Eagleton) While the definition of l...

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