The Heresy of Paraphrase - Cleanth Brooks

This video is about the concept of the “heresy of paraphrase” comes from literary theory, in particular the New Critical School's study of poetry. It holds that the full meaning of a poem cannot be transferred into another form, such as prose or propositional statements, because the meaning of the poem is partly contained in the 'structure' of the poem itself.
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