Seven Types of Ambiguity - Couverture souple

Empson, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 081120037X ISBN 13 : 9780811200370

Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1966

Synopsis

Revised twice since it first appeared, it has remained one of the most widely read and quoted works of literary analysis. Ambiguity, according to Empson, includes "any verbal nuance, however slight, which gives room for alternative reactions to the same piece of language." From this definition, broad enough by his own admission sometimes to see "stretched absurdly far," he launches into a brilliant discussion, under seven classifications of differing complexity and depth, of such works, among others, as Shakespeare's plays and the poetry of Chaucer, Donne, Marvell, Pope, Wordsworth, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot.

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À propos de l'auteur

William Empson was a 20th century English literary critic and writer.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 1966
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 081120037X
• ISBN 13: 9780811200370
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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• Personne responsable: non disponible