William Empson and the philosophy of literary criticism /
Following the publication of Seven Types of Ambiguity in 1930 William Empson was quickly recognised as a critic of great originality and unique creative gifts and he has inspired a whole new method and style of approach in literary criticism. But this is the first full-length study of his work and i...
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Bloomsbury Academic,
2013
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| Series: | Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1 Empson and Present-Day Criticism: a Chapter of Misunderstandings; Poet and critic: a change of heart?; The rational motive: Empson and the literature of conflict; 2 'Beyond Formalism': Pastoral and the 'Subjective Correlative'; History and form in Pastoral: the' timeless prison' of Symbolism; 3 Complex Words and the Grammar of Motives; Dramatic 'character' and the commonsense ethic; 4 Semantics and Historical Method: the Phenomenology of Meaning; Structures and meaning: the limits of explanation; Ordinary language and semantic history.
- Complex Words and the 'renaissance' view of man5 'Other Minds': the Morality of Knowledge; Milton's God and the 'question of intention'; Milton, Pastoral and the levels of consciousness; Poetry and narrative: the 'plot' dimension; The rational bias: some limiting cases in Empson's criticism; 6 Literary 'Values' and Modern Humanism: Empson's Work in Perspective; Alternative wisdoms: Empson between two cultures; Appendix: Complex Words and Recent Semantic Theory; Postscript by William Empson; Bibliographical Note; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.
