Hateful contraries : studies in literature and criticism

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

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 b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wimsatt, William K. (William Kurtz), 1907-1975
Other Authors: Beardsley, Monroe C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington : University of Kentucky Press, 1966.
Series:Kentucky paperbacks.
Subjects:
Literature > History and criticism.
Criticism.
Literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Criticism
Literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Horses of wrath: Recent critical lessons
  • Two meanings of symbolism: A grammatical exercise
  • Aristotle and Oedipus or else
  • The criticism of comedy
  • The concept of meter: An exercise in abstraction
  • The Augustan mode in English poetry
  • The fact imagined: James Boswell
  • Eliot's comedy: The cocktail party
  • Prufrock and Maud: From plot to symbol
  • What to say about a poem.

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