Which of the following New Critics put forward the idea of the ‘heresy of paraphrase’ ?
Cleanth Brooks names the heresy of paraphrase in The Well Wrought Urn, arguing that the poem’s meaning cannot be detached from its verbal organisation. Allen Tate, W.K.…
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Which of the following New Critics put forward the idea of the ‘heresy of paraphrase’ ?
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Cleanth Brooks names the heresy of paraphrase in The Well Wrought Urn, arguing that the poem’s meaning cannot be detached from its verbal organisation. Allen Tate, W.K. Wimsatt and Monroe C Beardsley did not originate that named formulation.
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