Hamlet's Castle : : The Study of Literature as a Social Experience /

Hamlet's Castle : : The Study of Literature as a Social Experience / / Gordon H. Mills.

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Hamlet's Castle is both a theoretical and a practical examination of the interactions that take place in a literary classroom. The book traces the source of literature's power to the relationship between its illusional quality and its abstract meaning and relates these elements to the proc...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Mills, Gordon H.,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©1976
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (372 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE. SEMBLANCE
  • 1. Introduction to Part One
  • 2. The Composition of a Semblance
  • 3. Semblance and Purpose
  • 4. Semblance and the Reader's Maturity
  • 5. Three Special Problems
  • 6. Summary of Part One
  • PART TWO. ABSTRACTIONS
  • 7. Introduction to Part Two
  • 8. Historical Context: The Logical Gap and Abstractions
  • 9. Meaning, Significance, and the Author's Intention
  • 10. Series and Probability
  • 11. Limited Generalizations
  • 12. Drama and Intention
  • 13. The Nonrational
  • 14. Summary of Part Two
  • PART THREE. VALIDATION
  • 15. Introduction to Part Three
  • 16. Forced Decisions and the Cultural Role of the Classroom
  • 17. Multiple Hypotheses
  • 18. The Discrimination Pool
  • 19. The Concept of Intrinsic Genre
  • 20. Mediation and the Concept of Order
  • 21. Significant Others
  • 22. Validation
  • Notes
  • Index

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