Author: Bernard Marie Dupriez

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 9780802068033

Comprising some 4000 terms, defined and illustrated, "Gradus" calls upon the resources of linguistics, poetics, semiotics, socio-criticism, rhetoric, pragmatics, combining them in ways which enable readers quickly to comprehend the codes and conventions which together make up 'literarity.'