Wimsatt Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

When referencing the 'gramma of poetry', Wimsatt means to describe the set of technical tools used to make up a poem - the ways words and phrases are sown together. For example, through personification, metaphor and/or imagery. He notes the importance of being able to recognise these but stresses that "simply a report on appearances"[1]of a poem is not enough to construct a meaningful reading of it. One must establish how these techniques are used as tools to convey the meanings and the mess...

Close reading was one of the ways English Literature was formulised into a subject and made examinable in the 1st half of the 20th century - looking at close reading as an institutional process.

Assessing the value of "concept of intention" when interpreting artworks.

This is a complete summary of the entire syllabus of the University of Groningen's First Year English Language and Culture subject Literary Theory for English Studies. It includes notes made during lectures and seminars given by Dr Kees de Vries

Summaries of articles in 'The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism', as well as chapters from 'Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory' by P. Barry. Discusses: Narratology, which includes: 'Aristotle Poetics', 'De Saussure Nature of the Linguistic Sign', 'Wimsatt and Beardsley The Intentional Fallacy', 'Barry Ch. 2 Structuralism' & 'Barry Ch. 12 Narratology'. Postmodernism, which includes: 'Paul de Man Semiology and Rhetoric', 'Lyotard Defining the Postmodern', ...

Summary of lecture notes made during lectures on Introduction to Literature.

This summary contains a summary of Aristotle, Poetics, sections 7-11, De Saussure - Chapter 1: Nature of the Linguistic Sign, Wimsatt and Beardsley - The Intentional Fallacy, Barry Ch. 2 Structuralism, Barry Ch. 12 Narratology.