Revised twice since it first appeared, it has remained one of the most widely read and quoted works of literary analysis. Title Seven Types of Ambiguity. Format Paperback. Sports & Outdoors.
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PublisherNew Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10081120037X
ISBN-139780811200370
eBay Product ID (ePID)27038776179
Product Key Features
Book TitleSeven Types of Ambiguity
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1966
TopicGeneral, Poetry, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
GenreLiterary Criticism, Poetry
AuthorWilliam Empson
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight10.2 Oz
Item Length8.1 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN48-000078
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal808.1
SynopsisFirst published in 1930, Seven Types of Ambiguity has long been recognized as a landmark in the history of English literary criticism., Revised twice since it first appeared, it has remained one of the most widely read and quoted works of literary analysis. Ambiguity, according to Empson, includes "any verbal nuance, however slight, which gives room for alternative reactions to the same piece of language." From this definition, broad enough by his own admission sometimes to see "stretched absurdly far," he launches into a brilliant discussion, under seven classifications of differing complexity and depth, of such works, among others, as Shakespeare's plays and the poetry of Chaucer, Donne, Marvell, Pope, Wordsworth, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot.