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If Not Critical

By Eric Griffiths

If Not Critical

By Eric Griffiths

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Eric Griffiths delivered hundreds of lectures at the Faculty of English in Cambridge, yet his lectures were never turned into books. If Not Critical brings together ten lectures, published here for the first time, that offer a representative selection of Dr Griffiths' original, fully-argued, and richly exemplified contributions to literary criticism and literary history. Crammed into his writing are decades of reading in several languages and across most genres and literary periods. In these lectures, he pursues the blind spots not only of other people's arguments, but of the whole business of criticism in general, with what he calls its 'over-concentration on anarrow range of examples . . . such over-concentration warps our thinking'. Implicit and explicit throughout his work is the argument that 'an appropriately wide range of instances is essential to making progress in conceptualisation'; that what we need, in order to do better thinking, is 'a keenerattention to a greater variety of examples'. Such examples include, in these lectures, the works of Shakespeare, Dante, Kafka, Beckett, Racine, Rabelais, T. S. Eliot, and Jonathan Swift.
Product details
Number of Pages:
262
Release Date:
2018-05-22
Publication Date:
2018-05-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198805292
ISBN13:
9780198805298
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
465 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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