1. The History and Theory of Anglo-American Literature
... 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 ... if any event were removed the plot would be irreparably damaged; it must be complete and entire, and of reasonable size. We could say that ...
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