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Autore |
Haffenden John |
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Titolo |
William Empson . Volume I Among the Mandarins [[electronic resource] /] / John Haffenden |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009, c2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-26860-0 |
9786612268601 |
0-19-157051-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (734 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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British - China - History - 20th century |
Criticism - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
Critics - Great Britain |
Poets, English - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ABBREVIATIONS; CHRONOLOGY; 1. Introduction; 2. In the Blood: Sir Richard Empson, Professor William, and John Henry; 3. 'A horrid little boy, airing my views'; 4. 'Owl Empson'; 5. 'Did I, I wonder, talk too much?'; 6. 'Mr Empson gave a very competent performance': The Multiple Man of Letters; 7. 'His presence spellbound us all': The Experiment Group; 8. The Making of Seven Types of Ambiguity: Influence and Integrity; 9. 'Those Particular Vices': Crisis, Expulsion, and Aftermath; 10. Seven Types of Ambiguity: The Critical Reception; 11. The Trials of Tokyo |
12. Poems 193513. Scapegoat and Sacrifice: Some Versions of Pastoral; 14. 'Waiting for the end, boys': Politics, Poets, and Mass-Observation; 15. Camping Out: China, 1937-1938; 16. 'The savage life and the fleas and the bombs': China, 1938-1939; 17. Postscript; APPENDIX: FURTHER FAMOUS FOREBEARS; NOTES; INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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John Haffenden's acclaimed biography of William Empson (1906-1984), the foremost English literary critic of the twentieth century, is now available in paperback. An authoritative and compelling account and |
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the first of two volumes exploring his remarkable life and work. - ;William Empson was the foremost English literary critic of the twentieth century. He was a man of huge energy and curiosity, and a genuine eccentric who remained imperturbable in the face of all the extraordinary circumstances in which he found himself. The discovery of contraceptives in his possession by a bedmaker at Cambr |
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