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The Handling of Words and Other Studies in Literary Psychology
The Handling of Words and Other Studies in Literary Psychology Author:Vernon Lee The republication of the 1923 study "The Handling of Words" should help to confirm Vernon Lee's pioneering work in helping to design the method of close empirical analysis of texts which has become so important in Anglo-American criticism. It also makes available passages of stylistic analysis whose value has been partially recognized by their i... more »nclusion in some anthologies. Finally, it shows how strikingly Lee anticipates some of the developments in contemporary criticism, for instance the role of the reader as co-creator.« less