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Literary theory

the mistake of treating a poem's meaning as a prose statement that can be extracted, when the meaning lies in the poem's whole structure.

In literary theory, heresy of paraphrase refers to the mistake of treating a poem's meaning as a prose statement that can be extracted, when the meaning lies in the poem's whole structure. This meaning comes from Brooks (1947) in The well wrought urn.[1]

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  1. Brooks, C. (1947). The well wrought urn. Harcourt, Brace. ISBN 9780416692105

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