Language, Literature and Critical Practice by David Birch

Language, Literature and Critical Practice by David Birch

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Using a wide-ranging variety of texts the author reviews and evaluates a broad range of approaches to textual commentary, introducing the reader to the fundamental distinction between `actual' and `virtual' worlds in critical practice.

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Language, Literature and Critical Practice by David Birch

Using a wide-ranging variety of texts the author reviews and evaluates a broad range of approaches to textual commentary, introducing the reader to the fundamental distinction between `actual' and `virtual' worlds in critical practice.

`Paves the way for a politically more aware and more responsible stylistics, and as such makes essential reading for anybody interested in the practice of literary criticism, and more particularly, in the role of ideology at the interface of language and literature' - Journal of Literary Semantics

`Accessible style and presentation ... extensive bibliography.' - Poetics Today

David Birch is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Central Queensland, Australia. Previously he taught at Murdoch University in Western Australia, and at the National University of Singapore, having completed his doctorate at the University of York, England.
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ISBN 13 9780415029414
ISBN 10 0415029414
Title Language, Literature and Critical Practice
Author David Birch
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published 1989-02-23
Number of pages 232
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