Empson Here and Now
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6225930 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Arac (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 225-236 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | boundary 2 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-3659 • E-ISSN: 1527-2141 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/01903659-11083921 |
| OpenAlex | W4398248419 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
In light of Oxford University Press issuing two volumes in The Critical Works of William Empson (Some Versions of Pastoral [1935] and The Structure of Complex Words [1951]), this essay thinks over Empson's career and major works to consider what his value may be nearly a century after his first book, with special attention to problems that Empson's Englishness may pose to readers in the United States
History · Music History and Culture · Research in Social Sciences
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |