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Abstract
INTRODUCTION
THE CONCEPTION OF AMBIGUITY WITHIN
EMPSON’S TYPES OF AMBIGUITY
A fundamental situation, whether it deserves to be called ambiguous
or not, is that a word or a grammatical structure is effective in several
ways at once. Ambiguity itself can mean indecision to what a person means,
an intention to mean several things, a probability that one or both of two
things have been meant, and the fact that a statement has several meanings.
Following the publication of Seven Types of Ambigyj_ty_ in 1930,
Empson was recognized as a critic of great originality and unique creative
gifts. Empson is perhaps the best known and least understood of modern
critics.
Seven Types of Ambiguity tended to strike attitudes and pile up
examples which Empson later defended in Some Versions of Pastoral (1935)
by translating its ingenuities and complications. In The Structure of Complex
Words (1951) Empson gave his readers further reasons for disquiet. It
is Empson’s critical summa.
In Seven Types of Arnbi~ Empson had used ambiguity as ·a pointer
to an expansive region of criticism. He sought to make terms between
poetry and the normal conditions of language and common sense discourse.