Selected Letters of William EmpsonJohn Haffenden OUP Oxford, 2006 M03 9 - 792 páginas This edited collection of letters by William Empson (1906-1984), one of the foremost writers and literary critics of the twentieth century, ranges across the entirety of his career. Parts of the correspondence record the development of ideas that were to come to fruition in seminal texts including Seven Types of Ambiguity, The Structure of Complex Words, and Milton's God. The topics of other letters range from Shakespeare's Dark Lady to Marvell's marriage and Byron's bisexuality. Empson relished correspondence that was combative, if not downright aggressive. As a result, parts of this edition take the form of a serial disputation with other critics of the period, including Frank Kermode, Helen Gardner, Philip Hobsbaum, and I. A. Richards. Other notable correspondents include A. Alvarez, Bonamy Dobrée, Leslie Fiedler, Graham Hough, C. K. Ogden, George Orwell, Kathleen Raine, John Crowe Ransom, Christopher Ricks, Laura Riding, A. L. Rowse, Stephen Spender, E. M. W. Tillyard, Rosemond Tuve, John Wain, and G. Wilson Knight. All readers of literary history and criticism will stand to benefit from this edition. Empson is universally credited as the man who 'invented' modern literary criticism, so that all of his writings make a signal addition to the canon of his works. This selection provides a context for the evaluation of Empson's total literary output; and in many letters Empson seeks to defend his ideas against both published and personal attacks. This volume not only fills in all the missing links, it adds up to a completely new volume of critical writings by Empson. |
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... arguing we do in ordinary life, usually to get our own way; I do not mean nagging by it, but just a not specially dignified sort of arguing.'25 He noted too that it could involve some pretty rough dealing: 'Argufying is not only mental ...
... arguing we do in ordinary life, usually to get our own way; I do not mean nagging by it, but just a not specially dignified sort of arguing.'25 He noted too that it could involve some pretty rough dealing: 'Argufying is not only mental ...
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... arguments can you answer them; only because it is interesting to you do you engage in argument about it. For personally I am attracted by the notion of a hearty indifference to one's own and other people's feelings, when a fragment of ...
... arguments can you answer them; only because it is interesting to you do you engage in argument about it. For personally I am attracted by the notion of a hearty indifference to one's own and other people's feelings, when a fragment of ...
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... argument behind a winsome chattiness (including the suggestion that he ought to be as 'nice' on paper as he was in person) that aggravated the situation for him. He felt she too readily substituted personality for critical principle ...
... argument behind a winsome chattiness (including the suggestion that he ought to be as 'nice' on paper as he was in person) that aggravated the situation for him. He felt she too readily substituted personality for critical principle ...
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... argument. Just as one may call a friend a fool, a rogue, or a dog––or even, in today's terms (with a necessary grin) a bastard––in an entirely hearty or matey way, the code of letters allowed for the paradoxical compliment that rudeness ...
... argument. Just as one may call a friend a fool, a rogue, or a dog––or even, in today's terms (with a necessary grin) a bastard––in an entirely hearty or matey way, the code of letters allowed for the paradoxical compliment that rudeness ...
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... argument. He did not particularly mind being asked to cut an essay or letter to fit the space available in a magazine––he allowed that abbreviation can sharpen sense––but there was a line to be drawn. In 1971 he submitted a remarkable ...
... argument. He did not particularly mind being asked to cut an essay or letter to fit the space available in a magazine––he allowed that abbreviation can sharpen sense––but there was a line to be drawn. In 1971 he submitted a remarkable ...
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