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
Literary & Critical Quotes
Literary & Critical Quotes - 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 Literary & Critical Quotes write by Dr. Hiren Trivedi. This book was released on 2023-02-14. Literary & Critical Quotes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book includes literary and critical quotations from the English literary tradition. It focuses on the views and beliefs of great poets, novelists, dramatists and critics on literature and literary trends. The book has been divided into two sections; the first is of literary quotes and the second is of critical quotes. The first section comprises the lines and stanzas of great poets, essayists, novelists and dramatists. The second section focuses on the critics’ views on various aspects of literature and literary theories. It will be a rich source of knowledge for the students, teachers and academicians.
A New Literary History of America
A New Literary History of America - 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 A New Literary History of America write by Greil Marcus. This book was released on 2009. A New Literary History of America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New Literary History of America contains essays on topics from the first conception of a New World in the sixteenth century to the latest re-envisioning of that world in cartoons, television, science fiction, and hip hop. Literature, music, film, art, history, science, philosophy, political rhetoriccultural creations of every kind appear in relation to each other, and to the time and place that give them shape.
The Anatomy of Influence
The Anatomy of Influence - 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 Anatomy of Influence write by Harold Bloom. This book was released on 2011-01-01. The Anatomy of Influence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this, his most comprehensive and accessible study of influence, Bloom leads readers through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years.
Lyrical and Critical Essays
Lyrical and Critical 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 Lyrical and Critical Essays write by Albert Camus. This book was released on 2012-10-31. Lyrical and Critical Essays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Edited by Philip Thody, translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy. "Here now, for the first time in a complete English translation, we have Camus' three little volumes of essays, plus a selection of his critical comments on literature and his own place in it. As might be expected, the main interest of these writings is that they illuminate new facets of his usual subject matter."--The New York Times Book Review "...a new single work for American readers that stands among the very finest."--The Nation
