William Empson : Prophet Against Sacrifice.

By: Fry, Paul HContributor(s): Norris, ChristopherMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Critics of the Twentieth Century SerPublisher: London : Routledge, 1991Copyright date: ©1991Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (195 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780203069257Subject(s): Criticism -- England -- History -- 20th century | Empson, William, -- 1906-1984 -- Knowledge -- Literature | English literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etcGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: William Empson : Prophet Against SacrificeDDC classification: 801/.95/092 LOC classification: PR6009.M7 -- Z66 1991ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Editor's foreword -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Texts frequently cited -- Introduction: the scapegoat and the word -- Satanic criticism: Empson and the Romantic tradition -- Advancing logical disorder: Empson on method -- Toward late Empson: the failure of pastoral -- Middle Spirits and Empson's chain of being -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: William Empson: Prophet Against Sacrifice provides the most coherent account of Empson's diverse career to date. While exploring the richness of Empson's comic genius, Paul H. Fry serves to discredit the appropriation of his name in recent polemic by the conflicting parties of deconstruction and politicized cultural criticism. He argues that Empson is a larger, more important figure than the orthodox in either camp can acknowledge, deserving to be considered alongside such versatile critics as Walter Benjamin, Kenneth Burke and Roland Barthes.
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Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Editor's foreword -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Texts frequently cited -- Introduction: the scapegoat and the word -- Satanic criticism: Empson and the Romantic tradition -- Advancing logical disorder: Empson on method -- Toward late Empson: the failure of pastoral -- Middle Spirits and Empson's chain of being -- Notes -- Index.

William Empson: Prophet Against Sacrifice provides the most coherent account of Empson's diverse career to date. While exploring the richness of Empson's comic genius, Paul H. Fry serves to discredit the appropriation of his name in recent polemic by the conflicting parties of deconstruction and politicized cultural criticism. He argues that Empson is a larger, more important figure than the orthodox in either camp can acknowledge, deserving to be considered alongside such versatile critics as Walter Benjamin, Kenneth Burke and Roland Barthes.

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