Hateful Contraries: Studies in Literature and Criticism - Paperback
Hateful Contraries: Studies in Literature and Criticism - Paperback
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by W. K. Wimsatt (Author)
These ten essays, written over a period from 1950 to 1962, are bound together by their common concern with questions of the meaning of criticism and the larger meaning of literature itself. These difficult questions W.K. Wimsatt treats with characteristic wit and penetration, ranging easily from a broad consideration of principles to incisive comment on individual writers and works. The first part of the book is devoted to a discussion of literary theory. Wimsatt reviews the development of cri
Author Biography
W. K. Wimsatt (1907--1975) was professor of English at Yale University and author of several literary critcisms, including Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry.
