1st Edition

William Empson Prophet Against Sacrifice

By Paul H. Fry Copyright 1991
195 Pages
by Routledge

195 Pages
by Routledge

195 Pages
by Routledge

William Empson: Prophet Against Sacrifice provides the most coherent account of Empson's diverse career to date. While exploring the richness of Empson's comic genius, Paul H. Fry serves to discredit the appropriation of his name in recent polemic by the conflicting parties of deconstruction and politicized cultural criticism. He argues that Empson is a larger, more important figure than the... Read more
Preface and acknowledgments1 Introduction: the scapegoat and the word 2 Satanic criticism: Empson and the Romantic tradition logical disorder: Empson on method 4 Toward late Empson: the failure of pastoral 5 Middle Spirits and Empson’s chain of being

Biography

Paul H. Fry