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

• Autore: Wimsatt William K (William Kurtz), <1907-1975, >
• Pubblicazione: Lexington, KY : , : University of Kentucky Press, , 1965; ©1965
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 pages)
• Disciplina: 809
• Soggetto topico: Criticism; Literature - History and criticism
• Persona (resp. second.): BeardsleyMonroe C.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Hateful contraries
• ISBN: 0-8131-6159-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807351603321
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