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Title: Seven Types of Ambiguity by William Empson ISBN: 0-8112-0037-X Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: June, 1966 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: How to Read & Think Subtly
Comment: The prose of the author is delightful: it was originally published in 1930 when better authors had a genteel but sophisticated style. The author's original intention was to set forth a theory of metaphor by distinguishing and analyzing, as the title says, seven forms of (linguistic) ambiguity. He draws the examples on which he exercizes his probative skill mostly from great writers in the English language. But for those schooled after, say, the 1950s it is a wonderful exhortation to read, speak and write with more subtelty than is usually encountered. A corollary of the case he makes is that ambiguity--carefully crafted ambiguity, not ambiguity of the slothful kind--can be very powerful, but it presupposes a precision in reading and writing which is a precondition for well-crafted metaphor. As such it stands for OUR generations as an exhortation to lingusitic sophistication and an implicit disproof that "liberty" goes hand in hand with slovenliness. It certainly does make better readers out of those who go through his book.
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Title: Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. by Northrop Frye ISBN: 0691069999 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 25 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry by Cleanth Brooks ISBN: 0156957051 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: June, 1956 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Some Versions of Pastoral (New Directions Paperbook ; 92) by William Empson ISBN: 0811200388 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: June, 1974 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Understanding Poetry by Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren ISBN: 0030769809 Publisher: International Thomson Publishing Pub. Date: July, 1976 List Price(USD): $58.95 |
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Title: Verbal Icon Studies in the Meaning of Poetry by William Kurtz Wimsatt ISBN: 0813101115 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Pub. Date: June, 1967 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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