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题名/责任者:

The structure of complex words : and related writings / William Empson ; edited by Helen Thaventhiran and Stefan Collini.

出版发行项:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2020.

ISBN:

9780198713432

ISBN:

0198713436

载体形态项:

lii, 614 pages ; 24 cm

个人责任者:

Empson, William, 1906-1984, author.

附加个人名称:

Thaventhiran, Helen, editor.

附加个人名称:

Collini, Stefan, 1947- editor.

论题主题:

English language-Semantics.

论题主题:

English language-Word formation.

论题主题:

English literature-History and criticism.

论题主题:

English language-Semantics.

论题主题:

English language-Word formation.

论题主题:

English literature.

体裁索引词:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

中图法分类号:

I106.2

一般附注:

Originally published in 1951.

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [559]-592) and index.

摘要附注:

This is the first scholarly edition of one of the classics of literary criticism. William Empson was among the two or three most important and influential literary critics and theorists of the twentieth century. He has long been celebrated as one of the most fertile (as well as one of the funniest) explorers of how meaning works in language, especially in poetry. The Structure of Complex Words (1951) was much his longest book and was intended as a major theoretical statement of his contribution to the subject. Since its publication, it has been constantly referred to, but usually from a respectful distance, since it can seem a forbidding and difficult work. 0This edition provides an extensive introduction together with full critical and explanatory notes. The editors trace the book's genesis and development in detail, beginning with Empson's collaboration with I. A. Richards in the early and mid-1930s, and concluding with the extensive writing and re-writing that Empson undertook while in Peking in 1947-50. This edition also reprints a selection of materials (including articles and letters) that illuminate Empson's thinking and contributed to the0eventual book. The edition makes Empson's great work more intelligible to a range of readers and will immediately become the standard version of this celebrated text.

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