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03367aam a2200349Ii 4500 001 537D2D7C8B8A11E6A6C758ADDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161006010101 008 150220s2015 enk b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2014958319 020 $a 0198713428 020 $a 9780198713425 035 $a (OCoLC)903804570 040 $a ERASA $b eng $e rda $c ERASA $d BDX $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d CDX $d NLE $d OCLCO $d XII $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d DEBSZ $d OCL $d OCLCO $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d S3O $d OCLCO $d SILO 050 4 $a PN94 T52 2015 100 1 $a Thaventhiran, Helen, $e author. 245 10 $a Radical empiricists : $b five modernist close readers / $c Helen Thaventhiran. 246 30 $a Five modernist close readers 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford ; $b Oxford University Press, $c 2015. 300 $a 276 pages ; $c 23 cm 505 0 $a Introduction : Modernist criticism and the meaning of meaning -- Annotation : T.S. Eliot and marginal commentary -- Experiment : I.A. Richards and critical bathos -- Emendation : William Empson and the textual crux -- Paraphrase : William Empson's cheerful heresies -- Circumlocution : R.P. Blackmur's failures of style -- Parataxis : Marianne Moore's reticent sentences -- Conclusion : Feedforward-feedback. 520 8 $a Radical Empiricists' presents a new history of criticism in the first half of the twentieth-century, against the backdrop of the modernist crisis of meaning. Our received idea of modernist criticism is that its novelty lay in being very empirical: critics believed in looking closely at words on the page. Such close reading has since been easy to ridicule but my book seeks to consider whether this is fair: have we, in the rush either to dismiss, or even to defend, the idea of close reading, often failed to look closely at what it involves in practice? Against this oversight, Radical Empiricists turns close reading back on itself, proposing some innovative readings of the prose of five major modernist poet-critics: I.A. Richards, T.S. Eliot, William Empson, R.P. Blackmur, and Marianne Moore. The book is divided into two parts, preceded by an introduction that explores what these five writers share: a radical self-consciousness about the key critical concept, 'meaning'. Part I, 'How to read', considers the prose techniques of Eliot, Richards and Empson as they push at the boundaries of verbal analysis in other disciplines: experimental psychology and anthropology, classical commentary and textual criticism. Part II introduces Blackmur and Moore, alongside Empson, and takes a more polemical look at how their critical styles defy various modernist orthodoxies about 'how not to read' (for example, that paraphrase always destroys poetic meaning). Many of these orthodoxies remain current: re-visiting their history, and attending to the rich detail of critical prose styles, can allow us to lift some old, unreflective constraints on our ways of knowing about poems. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 650 0 $a Criticism $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Literature, Modern $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Modernism (Literature) 650 0 $a Meaning (Philosophy) in literature. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20171003031645.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=537D2D7C8B8A11E6A6C758ADDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search