An Experiment in Criticism
Title | An Experiment in Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Books and reading |
ISBN |
"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
Title | An Experiment in Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | C. S. Lewis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
C. S. Lewis's classic analysis of the experience of reading.
The Ferrante Letters
Title | The Ferrante Letters PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Chihaya |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2020-01-07 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 023155088X |
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.
C.S. Lewis and a Problem of Evil
Title | C.S. Lewis and a Problem of Evil PDF eBook |
Author | Jerry Root |
Publisher | James Clarke & Company |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2010-08-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0227903005 |
C.S. Lewis was concerned about an aspect of the problem of evil he called subjectivism: the tendency of one's perspective to move towards self-referentialism and utilitarianism. In C.S. Lewis and a Problem of Evil, Jerry Root provides a holistic reading of Lewis by walking the reader through all of Lewis's published work as he argues Lewis's case against subjectivism. Furthermore, the book reveals that Lewis consistently employed fiction to make his case, as virtually all of his villains are portrayed assubjectivists. Lewis's warnings are prophetic; this book is not merely an exposition of Lewis, it is also a timely investigation into the problem of evil.
Studies in Words
Title | Studies in Words PDF eBook |
Author | C. S. Lewis |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 1990-09-13 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780521398312 |
C. S. Lewis explores the fascination with language by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations.
An Experiment with Time
Title | An Experiment with Time PDF eBook |
Author | John William Dunne |
Publisher | |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Time |
ISBN |
Exercises in Criticism
Title | Exercises in Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | Louis Bury |
Publisher | Dalkey Archive Scholarly |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781628971057 |
Exercises in Criticism is an experiment in applied poetics in which critic and poet Louis Bury utilizes constraint-based methods in order to write about constraint-based literature. By tracing the lineage and enduring influence of early Oulipian classics, he argues that contemporary American writers have, in their adoption of constraint-based methods, transformed such methods from apolitical literary laboratory exercises into a form of cultural critique, whose usage is surprisingly widespread, particularly among poets and "experimental" novelists. More, Bury's own use of critical constraints functions as a commentary on how and why we write and talk about books, culture, and ideas.