Seven Types of Ambiguity

· 1930-01-01· book· 576 citationsclosed

Poetry Analysis and Criticism Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics Modernist Literature and Criticism

Abstract

Citing authors as diverse as Chaucer, Milton, Pope, Hopkins and T.S. Eliot, Empson analyzes the use of ambiguity, illuminating the strategies of individual writers and creating a theory of poetic practice in general. This book was first published in 1930.

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William Empson (1930). Seven Types of Ambiguity.

@book{william1930seven,
  title  = {Seven Types of Ambiguity},
  author = {Empson, William},
  year   = {1930}
}

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