Description |
viii, 365 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
1. Practical criticism "Sailing to Byzantium": prolegomena to a poetics of the lyric -- Rhetoric and the appreciation of Pope -- Louise Bogan and LĂ©onie Adams -- The poetry of Marianne Moore -- The poetry of Wallace Stevens -- The poetry of Dylan Thomas -- 2. Interpretation: two on Hamlet Hamlet and the hermeneutics of drama -- "Mighty opposites": remarks on the plot of Hamlet -- 3. Critics Longinus and Reynolds -- William Empson, contemporary criticism, and poetic diction -- The argument of Longinus's On the sublime -- The poetic method of Aristotle: its powers and limitations -- 4. Critical theory A letter on teaching drama -- The lyric -- The poetic process -- Two Platonic dialogues A dialogue on symbolism A dialogue on the function of art in society -- An outline of poetic theory -- 5. Metacriticism Art and science -- On value judgments in the arts -- The dialectical foundations of critical pluralism |
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Literature Criticism Texts |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Hamlet (Legendary character)
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Criticism.
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LC no. |
75009057 |
ISBN |
0226628957 |
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