William Empson Prophet Against Sacrifice

Informationen zum Autor Paul H. Fry Klappentext William Empson: Prophet Against Sacrifice provides the most coherent account of Empson's diverse career to date. While exploring the richness of Empson's comic genius, Paul H. Fry serves to discredit the appropriation of his name in recent polemic by the conflicting parties of deconstruction and politicized cultural criticism. He argues that Empson is a larger, more important figure than the orthodox in either camp can acknowledge, deserving to be considered alongside such versatile critics as Walter Benjamin, Kenneth Burke and Roland Barthes. Zusammenfassung In this most coherent account of William Empson's career, Fry rescues this important critic from the conflicting camps of deconstruction and cultural criticism, placing him alongside such critics as Walter Benjamin, Kenneth Burke and Roland Barthes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and acknowledgments1 Introduction: the scapegoat and the word 2 Satanic criticism: Empson and the Romantic tradition logical disorder: Empson on method 4 Toward late Empson: the failure of pastoral 5 Middle Spirits and Empson’s chain of being

Product details

• Authors: Paul H. Fry, Fry Paul H.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 07.11.1991
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works
• EAN: 9780415024822
• ISBN: 978-0-415-02482-2
• Pages: 195
• Series: Critics of the Twentieth Century
• Subjects: PHILOSOPHY / General, Literary theory, comparative literary analysis, literary criticism theory, Empson criticism deconstruction debate, cultural criticism analysis, critical methodology humanities, scapegoat motif literature, Romantic tradition studies