TY - BOOK AU - Quinn, Kenneth TI - How literature works SN - 9780333568347 U1 - 820 PY - 1992/// CY - Houndmills : PB - Macmillan, KW - Literature N1 - Index; Preface.- A Particular Use of Words.- How Fiction Works: The text that tells a story.- The Singing and the Speaking Voice.- The Poetic and the Prosaic Mind.- The Writer as Moralist: The social function of literary texts.-List of Technical Terms.- Further Reading N2 - In How Literature Works important issues of literary theory are vividly illustrated by application to a wide variety of texts, many quoted and discussed at length ER -