The Structure of Complex Words

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by William Empson and Jonathan Culler

Harvard University Press

Due/Published March 1989, 449 pages, paper

ISBN 0674843754

Empson elegantly demonstrates the weight of allusion and implication borne by even the simplest works of our language: Man, honest, quite, dog. He explores the complex play of such words in social situations and in literature, producing in the process brilliant critical essays.