Acts of Implication: Suggestion and Covert Meaning in the Works of Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Austen, (Beckman Lectures)

By Irvin Ehrenpreis

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520040473
• ISBN13: 9780520040472
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 150 Pages