The structure of complex words

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The structure of complex words

William Empson

(Penguin literary criticism)

Penguin, 1995

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First published by Chatto & Windus, 1951

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This is a reissue of the major works of William Empson, literary critic, including the seminal seven types of ambiguity.

Table of Contents

  • Feelings in words
  • statements in words
  • wit in the essay on criticism
  • all in paradise lost
  • the praise of folly
  • fool in Lear
  • the English dog
  • Timon's dog
  • honest man
  • honest numbers
  • honest in "Othello"
  • "Sense and Sensibility"
  • sense in "Measure for Measure"
  • sense in the prelude
  • sensible and candid
  • Mesopotamia
  • pregnancy
  • metaphor
  • A is B
  • the primitive mind
  • dictionaries.

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