Implication, Readers' Resources, and Thomas Gray's Pindaric Odes

Nonfiction, History, Modern, 17th Century, 18th Century, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British
Cover of the book Implication, Readers' Resources, and Thomas Gray's Pindaric Odes by Frederick M. Keener, University of Delaware Press
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Author: Frederick M. Keener ISBN: 9781611494150
Publisher: University of Delaware Press Publication: October 27, 2012
Imprint: University of Delaware Press Language: English
Author: Frederick M. Keener
ISBN: 9781611494150
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Publication: October 27, 2012
Imprint: University of Delaware Press
Language: English

More radically than had any contemporary English author’s work, Thomas Gray’s two Pindaric odes of 1757, effectively challenged readers’ powers of comprehension, posing problems of reference as well as distinctly Pindaric problems of coherence. Solving those problems calls for knowledge not widely had then, now, or in between: knowledge of Gray’s largely unpublished and unstudied use of Plato and Locke, and particularly of logical and linguistic features–enthymemes, implicatures, and such–that Gray’s writing employs.

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More radically than had any contemporary English author’s work, Thomas Gray’s two Pindaric odes of 1757, effectively challenged readers’ powers of comprehension, posing problems of reference as well as distinctly Pindaric problems of coherence. Solving those problems calls for knowledge not widely had then, now, or in between: knowledge of Gray’s largely unpublished and unstudied use of Plato and Locke, and particularly of logical and linguistic features–enthymemes, implicatures, and such–that Gray’s writing employs.

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