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Hateful contraries : studies in literature and criticism / W. K. Wimsatt ; with an essay on English meter written in collaboration with Monroe C. Beardsley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wimsatt, William K. (William Kurtz), 1907-1975, author.
- Series:
- Kentucky Paperbacks ; 110
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criticism.
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, KY : University of Kentucky Press, 1965.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- These ten essays, written over a period from 1950 to 1962, are bound together by their common concern with questions of the meaning of criticism and the larger meaning of literature itself. These difficult questions W.K. Wimsatt treats with characteristic wit and penetration, ranging easily from a broad consideration of principles to incisive comment on individual writers and works.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Acknowledgment; Contents; Introduction; ONE; Horses of Wrath: Recent Critical Lessons; TWO; Two Meanings of Symbolism: A Grammatical Exercise; Aristotle and Oedipus or Else; The Criticism of Comedy; The Concept of Meter: An Exercise in Abstraction; THREE; The Augustan Mode in English Poetry; The Fact Imagined: James Boswell; Eliot's Comedy: The Cocktail Party; Prufrock and Maud: From Plot to Symbol; FOUR; What to Say about a Poem; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 245-253)
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8131-6159-2
- OCLC:
- 592292564
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