An Experiment in Criticism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Experiment in Criticism write by . This book was released on 1965. An Experiment in Criticism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Professor Lewis believed that literature exists above all for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He doubted the use of strictly evaluative criticism, especially its condemnations. Literary criticism is traditionally employed in judging books, and 'bad taste' is thought of as a taste for bad books. Professor Lewis's experiment consists in reversing the process, and judging literature itself by the way men read it. He defined a good book as one which can be read in a certain way, a bad book as one which can only be read in another. He was therefore mainly preoccupied with the notion of good reading: and he showed that this, in its surrender to the work on which it is engaged, has something in common with love, with moral action, and with intellectual achievement. In good reading we should be concerned less in altering our own opinions than in entering fully into the opinions of others; 'in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself'. As with all that Professor Lewis wrote, the arguments are stimulating and the examples apt"--Publisher description
An Experiment in Criticism
An Experiment in Criticism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Experiment in Criticism write by C. S. Lewis. This book was released on 1961. An Experiment in Criticism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. C. S. Lewis's classic analysis of the experience of reading.
The Ferrante Letters
The Ferrante Letters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ferrante Letters write by Sarah Chihaya. This book was released on 2020-01-07. The Ferrante Letters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels found an audience of passionate and engaged readers around the world. Inspired by Ferrante’s intense depiction of female friendship and women’s intellectual lives, four critics embarked upon a project that was both work and play: to create a series of epistolary readings of the Neapolitan Quartet that also develops new ways of reading and thinking together. In a series of intertwined, original, and daring readings of Ferrante’s work and her fictional world, Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, Katherine Hill, and Juno Jill Richards strike a tone at once critical and personal, achieving a way of talking about literature that falls between the seminar and the book club. Their letters make visible the slow, fractured, and creative accretion of ideas that underwrites all literary criticism and also illuminate the authors’ lives outside the academy. The Ferrante Letters offers an improvisational, collaborative, and cumulative model for reading and writing with others, proposing a new method the authors call collective criticism. A book for fans of Ferrante and for literary scholars seeking fresh modes of intellectual exchange, The Ferrante Letters offers incisive criticism, insouciant riffs, and the pleasure of giving oneself over to an extended conversation about fiction with friends.
An Experiment with Time
An Experiment with Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Experiment with Time write by John William Dunne. This book was released on 1927. An Experiment with Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Selected Literary Essays
Selected Literary Essays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Selected Literary Essays write by C. S. Lewis. This book was released on 2013-11-07. Selected Literary Essays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis's most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed range from Chaucer to Kipling, from 'The Literary Impact of the Authorized Version' to 'Psycho-Analysis and Literary Criticism,' from Shakespeare and Bunyan to Sir Walter Scott and William Morris. Common to each essay, however, is the lively wit, the distinctive forthrightness and the discreet erudition which characterizes Lewis's best critical writing.
