The structure of complex words
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The structure of complex words
(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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