Language and World Creation in Poems and Other TextsThis is an interdisciplinary and practical approach to the analysis of poetry which focuses on text worlds, namely the contexts, scenarios or types of reality that readers construct in their interaction with the language of texts. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Possibleworld theory fiction and literature | 3 |
Poetic text worlds as discourse situations | 9 |
Copyright | |
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