Reading the Absurd / / Joanna Gavins.
Challenges traditional scholarship on absurdist literature, privileging the reader and the genre's stylistic achievementsWhat is the literary absurd? What are its key textual features? How can it be analysed? How do different readers respond to absurdist literature?Taking the theories and metho...
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