Author: Smith, Barbara Herrnstein
Title: On the Margins of Discourse. The Relation of Literature to Language
Description: Chicago, University of Chicago Press, (1978). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xvii, 225 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Toward a Theory of Fictive Discourse: Literature as Performance, Fiction, and Art; Poetry as Fiction; On the Margins of Discourse; Exchanging Words: On the Economics & Ethics of Verbal Transactions; In the Linguistic Marketplace; Liscensing the Unspeakable; The Ethics of Interpretation; Linguistics & Literary Theory: Surfacing from the Deep.

Keywords: Philosophy of Literature, Literary style, Linguistics, Critical theory, Criticism, , , ,