Literary features: poetry, prose, and drama in theorised reading

What this note covers

1. Mode-specific features as analytical objects
2. Poetry: prosody, voice, and compression
3. Prose: narrative focalisation, temporality, and characterisation
4. Drama: form, stage directions, and dialogue
5. Text-centred frameworks and the formal literary object
6. World-context-centred frameworks and the ideological text
7. Integrating textual evidence with theoretical argument

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