RECRUITING THE READER IN LITERARY CRITICISM

Jan 04, 2013

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PURPOSES. To determine techniques that recruit the reader To account for their impact on the readerTo apply to literary research. METHOD. Corpus12 journals, based on reputation38 articles from 1999 2005Dealing with a specific text/ author. Corpus. Introductions only. Units of analysis. I. A

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RECRUITING THE READER IN LITERARY CRITICISM

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Literary Criticism

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