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No Symbols Where None Intended : Literary Essays from Laclos to Beckett /

In Nabokov's Lectures on Literature, he writes: "Style and structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash." The essays in No Symbols Where None Intended: Literary Essays from Laclos to Beckett use Nabokov's stylistic approach to well-known texts (fiction, drama and...

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Main Author:	Axelrod, Mark (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Palgrave pivot.
Subjects:	Literature > Philosophy. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading. LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama. LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.

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