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Seven Types of Ambiguity
Häftad, 1966
194 kr
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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, …
Complete Poems
Häftad, 2001
251 kr
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Empson has long been applauded for the dazzling intelligence and emotional passion of his poems. Praised in his lifetime by the likes of T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and John Betjeman, his reputation contines to be high. His poems take a wide range of themes from metaphysics to melancholy, social …
William Empson: Some Versions of Pastoral
Av William Empson, Seamus Perry
Inbunden, 2020
2437 kr
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William Empson is, alongside T. S. Eliot, the greatest genius among twentieth-century critics, and Some Versions of Pastoral is widely recognised as one of the most extraordinary works of the golden age of English literary criticism. Ranging with astonishing virtuosity between works of several …
William Empson: The Structure of Complex Words
Av William Empson, Helen Thaventhiran m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
3023 kr
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This is the first scholarly edition of one of the classics of literary criticism. William Empson was among the two or three most important and influential literary critics and theorists of the twentieth century. He has long been celebrated as one of the most fertile (as well as one of the funniest) …
The Face of the Buddha
Av William Empson, Rupert Arrowsmith
Inbunden, 2016
862 kr
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Taking up a teaching appointment in Tokyo in 1931, the English poet and literary critic William Empson found himself captivated by the Buddhist sculptures of ancient Japan, and spent the years that followed in search of similar examples all over Korea, China, Cambodia, Burma, India, and Ceylon, as …
William Empson: Essays on Renaissance Literature: Volume 2, The Drama
Av William Empson, John Haffenden
Häftad, 2007
823 kr
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This collection of William Empson's essays on Elizabethan and Jacobean drama is the second volume of his writings on Renaissance literature. Edited with an introduction by the leading Empson scholar John Haffenden, the contents range from famous essays on The Spanish Tragedy, Volpone, The Alchemist …
William Empson: Essays on Shakespeare
Av William Empson, David Pirie
Häftad, 1986
467 kr
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At the time of his death in 1984, the poet and critic William Empson was preparing and revising a collection of his essays on Shakespeare. This collection edited by David Pirie, is a book which the literary world has wanted for over half a century. Here, in a single volume, are major readings of …
William Empson: Essays on Renaissance Literature: Volume 2, The Drama
Av William Empson, John Haffenden
Inbunden, 1994
1797 kr
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This collection of William Empson's essays on Elizabethan and Jacobean drama is the second volume of his writings on Renaissance literature. Edited with an introduction by the leading Empson scholar John Haffenden, the contents range from famous essays on The Spanish Tragedy, Volpone, The Alchemist …
William Empson: Essays on Renaissance Literature: Volume 1, Donne and the New Philosophy
Av William Empson, John Haffenden
Häftad, 1995
842 kr
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Following the success in paperback of William Empson's Essays on Shakespeare (1986), this first volume of his Essays on Renaissance Literature (1993) now appears in an accessible format. The volume gathers Empson's passionate and controversial essays on John Donne in the context of contemporary …
Seven Types Of Ambiguity
E-bok, 2016
160 kr
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Strengths of Shakespeare's Shrew
Essays, Memoirs and Reviews
Av William Empson, John Haffenden
Inbunden, 2015
2275 kr
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Passionate, controversial and illuminating – this collection contains Empson’s best short pieces on Shakespeare, a sally on George Herbert, a defence of Coleridge, and an eager introduction to a French farce, a group of incomparably witty autobiographical articles, and the text to his extraordinary …
Strengths of Shakespeare's Shrew
Essays, Memoirs and Reviews
Av William Empson, John Haffenden
E-bok, 2015
2509 kr
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Passionate, controversial and illuminating – this collection contains Empson''s best short pieces on Shakespeare, a sally on George Herbert, a defence of Coleridge, and an eager introduction to a French farce, a group of incomparably witty autobiographical articles, and the text to his …
Some Versions of Pastoral
Literary Criticism
Häftad, 1974
223 kr
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Mr. Empson sees the pastoral convention as including not only poems of shepherd life but any work "about the people but not by or for" them. Finding examples in the writing of every country and century, from Mencius to William Faulkner or Céline, he concentrates on an analysis of certain works and …
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