Explorations in Poetics - 9780804755160

Explorations in PoeticsAuthor(s): Benjamin Harshav\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804755160, 978-0804755160\nSynopsis\nThis collection of essays, originally published at different times, presents a coherent, systematic, and comprehensive theory of the work of literature and its major aspects. The approach, which may be called \""Constructive Poetics,\"" does not assume that a work of literature is a text with fixed structures and meanings, but a text that invites the reader to evoke or project a network of interrelated constructs, complementary or contradictory as they may be. The work of literature is not just a narrative, as studies in narratology assume, but a text that projects a fictional world, or an Internal Field of Reference. Meanings in a text are presented through the evocation of \""frames of reference\"" (scenes, characters, ideas, etc.). Language in literature is double-directed: it r.