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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"William Empson"”.
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Empty caves
… concems. 2) Two Essays, entitled "Dear Warlock-Williams: Why of Course: The Lonely Larkin" and 'William Empson : His Modem Escape". The first concerns Philip Larkin's uncanny ability to create a beauty out of irony, isolation, and desolation, his achievement of transcendence from entrapment. The …
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The value of literature: the disparity between 'Practical Criticism' and 'Modern Literary Theory' with a case study of Thomas Hardy
… of methodological camps, namely, T. S. Eliot, William Empson, F. R. Leavis, and I. A. Richards (‘Practical’, or ‘New’, Criticism); Homi K. Bhabha (postcolonialism); Terry Eagleton (Marxism); J. Hillis Miller (deconstruction); and Elaine Showalter (feminism). In the process, the thesis also …
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The killer shepherds: hunters as pastoral figures in the Early National period
… I construct by integrating theories presented by William Empson and Paul Alpers in their landmark works Some Versions of Pastoral and What Is Pastoral?, respectively. This framework asserts that works in the pastoral mode are characterized not by the presence of an idyllic setting, but instead by …
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The Indeterminacy of Longform Poetics in John Cage and Charles Olson
… as exemplified in I.A. Richards and William Empson. It then recounts the developing discourse around poetic indeterminacy as it emerged through Roman Ingarden, Wolfgang Iser, Marjorie Perloff and Charles Altieri, and how that discourse increasingly configures the question of …
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Dylan Thomas and the experiences of reading
… possibility of new readerly perception. William Empson’s formative work on ambiguity is critical across my thesis, for the ways in which he describes ambiguity being generated and perceived, but also for his suggestion that readers must ‘honestly consider what seems important’ in reading …