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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wimsatt, William K. (William Kurtz), 1907-1975 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [1989], 1982.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgment; Contents; Introduction; 1; The Intentional Fallacy; The Affective Fallacy; The Chicago Critics: The Fallacy of the Neoclassic Species; 2; The Concrete Universal; Poetry and Morals: A Relation Reargued; The Structure of Romantic Nature Imagery; Symbol and Metaphor; 3; The Substantive Level; One Relation of Rhyme to Reason; Rhetoric and Poems: Alexander Pope; When Is Variation ""Elegant""?; Verbal Style: Logical and Counterlogical; 4; The Domain of Criticism; Explication as Criticism.
  • History and Criticism: A Problematic RelationshipPoetry and Christian Thinking; Notes and References; Index.