Radical empiricists : five modernist close readers / Helen Thaventhiran. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thaventhiran, Helen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism--History--20th century.

Criticism.

Modernism (Literature).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

'Radical Empiricists' presents a new history of criticism in the first half of the twentieth-century, against the backdrop of the modernist crisis of meaning. It turns close reading back on itself, proposing innovative readings of the prose of five major modernist poet-critics: I.A. Richards, T.S. Eliot, William Empson, R.P. Blackmur, and Marianne Moore. For each critic, it identifies characteristic patterns of prose and techniques of reading, from annotation to parataxis.

Contents:

Introduction : Modernist criticism and the meaning of meaning

Annotation : T.S. Eliot and marginal commentary

Experiment : I.A. Richards and critical bathos

Emendation : William Empson and the textual crux

Paraphrase : William Empson's cheerful heresies

Circumlocution : R.P. Blackmur's failures of style

Parataxis : Marianne Moore's reticent sentences

Conclusion : Feedforward-feedback.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 25, 2015).

ISBN:

0-19-180409-6