Description
Book SynopsisA collection of essays on literature and language, built on the assumption that works of literature have existence in the real world and that they may be analyzed in a fashion that is not totally subjective.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part One. The Definition of Literature and the Study of Its Patterns
- 1. A Program for the Definition of Literature
- 2. Toward a Literary Analysis
- 3. Pippa’s Song: Two Attempts at Structural Criticism
- 4. An Analysis of The Windhover. An Experiment in Method
- Part Two. Types of Meaning and Imagery
- 5. Poetry and Stylistics
- 6. Analogies, Icons, and Images
- 7. Imagery and Meaning: A Passage from Lycidas and a Poem by Blake
- 8. The Locus of the Literary Work
- Part Three. Principles for Interpreting Meaning
- 9. Principles Governing Semantic Parallels
- 10. Some Points in the Analysis of Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn
- 11. Two Views of Poetic Language and Meaning: The Poem as Cryptogram and as Example of Deviant Grammar
- 12. Figurative Structure and Meaning: Two Poems by Emily Dickinson
- Notes
- Index
