Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

9/1/1976 - 6/30/1977

Funding Totals

$15,000.00 (approved)
$15,000.00 (awarded)


Poetic Allegory in the Age of Sensibility

FAIN: FB-12736-76

John R. Marshall
University of Texas, El Paso (El Paso, TX 79968-8900)

To study the relationship between the epistemological assumptions about the way in which "ideas" are known to the subjective mind and the way in which language is used by sensibility poets, concentrating on Locke's theory of language and Bishop Berkelly's linguistic model of visual perception.