Against Interpretation, and Other EssaysItem consists of a selection of articles and reviews written between 1962 and 1965. |
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... style of a particular novel or poem at all as a " style , " without implying , whether one wishes to or not , that style is merely decorative , accessory , is extremely hard . Merely by employing the notion , one is almost bound to ...
... style of a particular novel or poem at all as a " style , " without implying , whether one wishes to or not , that style is merely decorative , accessory , is extremely hard . Merely by employing the notion , one is almost bound to ...
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... style changes . To speak of style is one way of speaking about the totality of a work of art . Like all discourse about totalities , talk of style must rely on metaphors . And metaphors mislead . Take , for instance , Whitman's very ...
... style changes . To speak of style is one way of speaking about the totality of a work of art . Like all discourse about totalities , talk of style must rely on metaphors . And metaphors mislead . Take , for instance , Whitman's very ...
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... style . It seems harmless to speak of a style , drawing from the crude termi- nology used to render physical sensations , as being " loud " or " heavy " or " dull " or " tasteless " or , employing the image of an argument , as ...
... style . It seems harmless to speak of a style , drawing from the crude termi- nology used to render physical sensations , as being " loud " or " heavy " or " dull " or " tasteless " or , employing the image of an argument , as ...
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