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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787467803321

Autore

Wimsatt William K (William Kurtz), <1907-1975, >

Titolo

Hateful contraries : studies in literature and criticism / / W. K. Wimsatt ; with an essay on English meter written in collaboration with Monroe C. Beardsley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, KY : , : University of Kentucky Press, , 1965

©1965

ISBN

0-8131-6159-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 pages)

Collana

Kentucky Paperbacks ; ; 110

Disciplina

809

Soggetti

Criticism

Literature - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 245-253)

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Acknowledgment; Contents; Introduction; ONE; Horses of Wrath: Recent Critical Lessons; TWO; Two Meanings of Symbolism: A Grammatical Exercise; Aristotle and Oedipus or Else; The Criticism of Comedy; The Concept of Meter: An Exercise in Abstraction; THREE; The Augustan Mode in English Poetry; The Fact Imagined: James Boswell; Eliot's Comedy: The Cocktail Party; Prufrock and Maud: From Plot to Symbol; FOUR; What to Say about a Poem; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

These ten essays, written over a period from 1950 to 1962, are bound together by their common concern with questions of the meaning of criticism and the larger meaning of literature itself. These difficult questions W.K. Wimsatt treats with characteristic wit and penetration, ranging easily from a broad consideration of principles to incisive comment on individual writers and works.