In:The Quality of Literature: Linguistic studies in literary evaluation
Edited by Willie van Peer
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 4] 2008
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 19 March 2008
https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.4.toc
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Table of contents
Acknowledgmentsvii
Forewordix
Introduction
Part I. Textual and generic comparisons15
1. Canon formation: Ideology or aesthetic quality?
2. Why Hugh Maccoll is not, and will never be, part of any literary canon
3. Popular / canonical: The case of The Secret Agent
4. Literary evaluation and poetic form: Poetic form and creative tension
5. Poetic value: Political value
6. "Too soon transplanted": Coleridge and the forms of dislocation
7. Evaluation and stylistic analysis
8. The value of Juvenal
Part II. Theoretical reflections157
9. Some correlates of literary eminence
10. Macbeth through the computer: Literary evaluation and pedagogical implications
11. How scientific can literary evaluation be? Arguments and experiments
12. Philosophical perspectives on literary value
13. The qualities of literatures: A concept of literary evaluation in pluralistic societies
Author index
Subject index243
