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Title:

William Empson : the critical achievement / edited by Christopher Norris and Nigel Mapp.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

1993

Description:

xiii, 319 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Empson, William,--1906---Literature.--Literature.
Literature--Theory, etc.--Theory, etc.
Criticism--England--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

Norris, Christopher, 1947-
Mapp, Nigel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographica; references (p. 308-315) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : Empson as literary theorist : from ambiguity to complex words and beyond / Christopher Norris -- Empsonian honesty and the beginnings of individualism / Gary Wihl -- Empson, Leavis, and the challenge of Milton / William E. Cain -- Empson's Satan : an ambiguous character of the seventh type / Paul H. Fry -- Compacted doctrines : Empson and the meanings of words / Alan Durant and Colin MacCabe -- Figural narrative and plot construction : Empson on pastoral / Pamela McCallum -- More lurid figures : de Man reading Empson / Neil Hertz -- Fool and Pharmakon / William Righter -- William Empson's cosmicomics / Jean-Jacques Lechercle -- Empson as teacher : the Sheffield years / Philip Hobsbaum.

ISBN:

9780521353861
0521353866

OCLC:

(OCoLC)25409644
(OCoLC)28846555

LCCN:

92008736

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)