Seven types of ambiguity. / William Empson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Empson, William, 1906-1984.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

New Directions paperbook ; NDP204.

New Directions paperbook ; NDP204

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xv, 256 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

[Third edition].

Other Title:

7 types of ambiguity

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [1966]

Summary:

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."

Notes:

"First U.S. edition, New Directions, 1947 (revised from British 1930 edition). Meridian paperback edition, 1936. First New Directions Paperbook 204, 1966."

"New Directions books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation ..."

Contains Preface to the Second Edition" (p. [vii]-xv) and "Note for the Third Editon (p. [xvi]).

"Cover design by David Ford."

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1976".

Potok Collection copy is "Fifth Printing".

ISBN:

081120037x

OCLC:

653895