This accessible, personal, and provocative study returns to the major subject in literary discussion before and during the relatively recent flourishing of lite

This accessible, personal, and provocative study returns to the major subject in literary discussion before and during the relatively recent flourishing of lite

Intention plays a complex role in human utterances. The interpretation of literary texts is a strong case in point: for about two hundred years there have been

This book explores the logic and historical origins of a strange taboo that has haunted literary critics since the 1940s, keeping them from referring to the int

"...an excellent and comprehensive discussion of a debate that was initiated in this century in William Wimsatt's and Monroe C. Beardsley's influential article