Implication, Readers' Resources, and Thomas Gray's Pindaric Odes
Nonfiction, History, Modern, 17th Century, 18th Century, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British
| 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 Solving those problems calls for knowledge not widely had then, now, or in between: knowledge of Gray’s largely unpublished and unstudied use of Plato and Locke, and particularly of logical and linguistic features–enthymemes, implicatures, and such–that Gray’s writing employs.
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 Solving those problems calls for knowledge not widely had then, now, or in between: knowledge of Gray’s largely unpublished and unstudied use of Plato and Locke, and particularly of logical and linguistic features–enthymemes, implicatures, and such–that Gray’s writing employs.
