William Empson

Prophet Against Sacrifice
1. Auflage 1991
ISBN: 978-0-415-02482-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 195 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 385 g

Reihe: Critics of the Twentieth Century

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fry, Paul H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and acknowledgments1 Introduction: the scapegoat and the word 2 Satanic criticism: Empson and the Romantic tradition logical disorder: Empson on method 4 Toward late Empson: the failure of pastoral 5 Middle Spirits and Empson’s chain of being

Über Autor(innen)

Paul H. Fry