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Acts of Implication

Suggestion and Covert Meaning in the Works of Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Austen

Acts of Implication( )
Author: Ehrenpreis, Irvin
ISBN:978-0-520-30274-7
Publication Date:Jul 2018
Publisher:University of California Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $65.95
Book Description:

Acts of Implication argues that the best approach to the aesthetic value of much literature of the past is by way of the deliberate meaning--implicit or explicit--that the author invites the reader to share. Irvin Ehrenpreis shows that subtlety and indirection do not militate against the didacticism and lucid style we usually associate with writers in the Augustan tradition. In a group of simulating essays he examines how an eighteenth-century dramatist, an essayist, a...
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Book Details
Pages:168
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / Poetry
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13.97 x 21.59 x 1.016 cm
Book Weight:0.227 Kilograms



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