A 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. Intro -- Cover -- Title -- Copyright --...
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A 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. Intro -- Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1. 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 2. 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 3. 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.
