This title challenges traditional scholarship on absurdist
literature, privileging the reader and the genre's stylistic
achievements. Since Martin Esslin coined 'the Theatre of the
Absurd' to describe experimental drama in the mid-twentieth
century, the term 'absurd' has been adopted as a means of
discussing a vast array of literary text. Many accounts have
focused on the philosophical and thematic concerns of absurd prose
fiction, but literary-criticism has failed to agree on the
stylistic, generic, and temporal. This volume takes an alternative
approach: its core aim is to provide a coherent, linguistically
rigorous examination of the discourse features which characterise
the absurd in literature. In order to understand how such a
critically ill-defined term continues to have value and relevance
to a global readership in the twenty-first century it takes as its
starting point the readers who regularly use absurd terms and
investigates their discussions in online fora, on literary tagging
websites, and in face-to-face interactions. It examines a diverse
range of literary texts, both prose and poetry. It covers classic
and contemporary absurdist texts. It analyses the stylistic
characteristics of this body of work using a cognitive-stylistic
approach.
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