Languages of Literature

<p>In <i>The Language of Literature </i>first published in 1971 Roger Fowler argues that the vitality and centrality of the verbal dimension of literature and read as a whole the papers in this collection imply a consistent point of view on language in literature. The author focuses on the continuity of language in literature with language outside literature on its cultural appropriateness and adjustment and on its power to create aesthetic patterns and to organise concepts to make fictions. This title will be of interest to students of literary theory. </p>