Radical Empiricists: Five Modernist Close Readers

Author:   Helen Thaventhiran (College Lecturer, College Lecturer, Robinson College, Cambridge)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   286
Publication Date:   13 August 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Helen Thaventhiran (College Lecturer, College Lecturer, Robinson College, Cambridge)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.20cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780198713425


ISBN 10:   0198713428
Pages:   286
Publication Date:   13 August 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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INTRODUCTION: modernist criticism and the meaning of meaning PART I: How to Read I. Annotation: T.S. Eliot and marginal commentary II. Experiment: I.A. Richards and critical bathos III. Emendation: William Empson and the textual crux PART II: How Not to Read IV. Paraphrase: William Empson's cheerful heresies V. Circumlocution: R.P. Blackmur's failures of style VI. Parataxis: Marianne Moore's reticent sentences CONCLUSION: feedback-feedforward

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[Radical Empiricists] will prove useful both for those interested in the literary production of the modernist period, and for those interested in the kinds of intellectual and social practices we engage in when we write about the meaning of other peoples words. William Ghosh, Review of English Studies This book is a stimulating history of criticism with an innovative focus on the style of critical prose, and will be of great interest to scholars interested specifically in the history of criticism in the early twentieth century. Forum for Modern Language Studies


[Radical Empiricists] will prove useful both for those interested in the literary production of the modernist period, and for those interested in the kinds of intellectual and social practices we engage in when we write about the meaning of other peoples words. William Ghosh, Review of English Studies


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Helen Thaventhiran studied for her BA and PhD in Cambridge (at Trinity Hall and King's respectively), and for an MSt. in twentieth-century literature at New College, Oxford. From 2009-2013, she held a Junior Research Fellowship at Christ's College, Cambridge. She is currently a fellow of Robinson College, where she is Director of Studies for English, and an affiliated lecturer of the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. She has also taught English in Bosnia and China. Helen's research interests include prose, philosophy of language, criticism, intellectual history and modernism.

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