Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- 1 Introduction: Empson as literary theorist: from Ambiguity to Complex Words and beyond
- 2 Empsonian honesty and the beginnings of individualism
- 3 Empson, Leavis, and the challenge of Milton
- 4 Empson's Satan: an ambiguous character of the seventh type
- 5 Compacted doctrines: Empson and the meanings of words
- 6 Figural narrative and plot construction: Empson on pastoral
- 7 More lurid figures: de Man reading Empson
- 8 Fool and pharmakon
- 9 William Empson's cosmicomics
- 10 Empson as teacher: the Sheffield years
- References
- Index
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- 1 Introduction: Empson as literary theorist: from Ambiguity to Complex Words and beyond
- 2 Empsonian honesty and the beginnings of individualism
- 3 Empson, Leavis, and the challenge of Milton
- 4 Empson's Satan: an ambiguous character of the seventh type
- 5 Compacted doctrines: Empson and the meanings of words
- 6 Figural narrative and plot construction: Empson on pastoral
- 7 More lurid figures: de Man reading Empson
- 8 Fool and pharmakon
- 9 William Empson's cosmicomics
- 10 Empson as teacher: the Sheffield years
- References
- Index
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- William EmpsonThe Critical Achievement, pp. 308 - 315Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993