Poetic prose-fiction as art : axiomatic fictionality, eloquence, and formal coherence in Alessandro Baricco's ocean sea and silk

This paper is a consideration of the nature of art, and the extent to which one may consider literature, or more specifically, poetic prose-fiction works to be art. Through a survey of the aesthetic theories of Susanne Langer, Etienne Gilson, Dennis Donoghue, Clive Bell and M. H. Abrams, it identifi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tan, Hazel Yan Lin
Other Authors: Cornelius Anthony Murphy
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/65635