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Contents
Literature and Literary Study | 3 |
The Nature of Literature | 9 |
Literature | 38 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Theory of literature |
| Authors | René Wellek, Austin Warren |
| Contributor | Austin Warren |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace, 1949 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Feb 20, 2008 |
| Length | 403 pages |
| Subjects | › Criticism Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory Literature |
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