Title: Essai sur la langue de la reclame contemporaine
Description: Ambiguity, according to Empson, includes "any verbal nuance, however slight, which gives room for alternative reactions to the same piece of language." From this definition, broad enough by his own admission sometimes to see "stretched absurdly far," he launches into a brilliant discussion, under seven classifications of differing complexity and depth, of such works, among others, as Shakespeare's plays and the poetry of Chaucer, Donne, Marvell, Pope, Wordsworth, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot.
Subjects: English poetry, History and criticism, Poetry, Ambiguity in literature, Ambiguität, Literatur, Advertisting copy, French language, English poetry, history and criticism, Pictorial works, Description and travel, International law
Places: Englisch