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The Verbal Icon : Studies in the Meaning of Poetry /

The sixteen essays in this volume form a series of related focuses upon various levels and areas of literary criticism. W.K. Wimsatt's assumption is that practice and theory of both the past and the present are integrally related-that there is a continuity in the materials of criticism-that a p...

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Auteur principal: Wimsatt, William K. (William Kurtz), 1907-1975 (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [1989], 1982.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Résumé:The sixteen essays in this volume form a series of related focuses upon various levels and areas of literary criticism. W.K. Wimsatt's assumption is that practice and theory of both the past and the present are integrally related-that there is a continuity in the materials of criticism-that a person who studies poetry today has a critical concern, not merely a historical interest, in what Aristotle or Plato said about poetry. He regards the great perennial problems of criticism as arising not by the whim of a tolerantly pluralist choice, but from the nature of language and reality. With profoun.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (318 pages).
ISBN:9780813158495