Jose Saramago in a new key: on eloquence, formal beauty and reading fiction as art.

Drawing on the philosophies of art and aesthetics, including the work of Clive Bell, Susanne Langer, Denis Donoghue, Etienne Gilson and Peter Lamarque, I identify the principles of beauty most frequently associated with the literary arts and explore the means by which beauty is conveyed through lang...

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Main Author:	Wang, Michelle Wanzheng.
Other Authors:	Angela Anne Frattarola
Format:	Theses and Dissertations
Language:	English
Published:	2011
Subjects:	DRNTU::Humanities::Literature
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10356/46247
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Jose Saramago in a new key: on eloquence, formal beauty and reading fiction as art.

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