Author: Norris, C.C.
Title: William Empson and the Philosophy of Literary Criticism
Description: London, Athlone Press, 1978. orig. cloth. 22x14cm, ix, 222 pp. Slight spine slope, minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Empson & Present-Day Criticism: A Chapter of Misunderstandings; 'Beyond Formalism'; Pastoral & the 'Subjective Correlative'; Complex Words & the Grammar of Motives; Semantics & Historical Method: The Phenomenology of Meaning; 'Other Minds': The Morality of Knowledge; Literary Values & Modern Humanism: Empson's Work in Perspective; Appendix: Complex Words & Recent Semantic Theory.

Keywords: Philosophy of Literature, Literary Criticism, William Empson, , , , , ,