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Dupriez, Bernard
Bernard Dupriez is professor titulaire, Département d'Etudes françaises, Université de Montréal
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A Dictionary of Literary Devices
Gradus, A-Z
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tagged : semiotics & theory
'Common-sense,' the Romantic critics told us, was all that was needed to understand and interpret literary texts. Today, we know this is not generally true. Modern criticism has joined with pre-Romantic criticism to expose common-sense as appropriate (because simple-minded), inadequate to comprehend and interpret verbal structures which are frequen …
