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In Defence of the Imagination by Helen Gardner (English) Paperback Book
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- ISBN-13
- 9780674445406
- Book Title
- In Defence of the Imagination
- ISBN
- 9780674445406
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism
- Publication Name
- In Defence of the Imagination
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Subject
- European / General, General, American / General
- Series
- The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
- Publication Year
- 1984
- Type
- Textbook
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- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
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- Item Weight
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- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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Helen Gardner is a vigorous and eloquent champion of traditional literary values. These values have been subverted, she feels, by some of the ablest of modern academics and by prevalent tendencies in criticism and teaching today. She discusses the new schools of criticism which exalt the sometimes unintelligible theorist above the creator of the work of art, the imaginative interpreter of life, or which replace the authority of the author with that of the reader. She regrets the tendency of teachers to emphasize contemporary literature to the neglect of the great writings of the past and to teach past literature only if it can somehow be made "relevant." She reproves theater directors who distort Shakespeare's plays and who convert serious drama into happenings. And she finds that biographers of writers are so preoccupied with the inner lives of their subjects that the writings become psychological documents rather than works of the imagination. In a closing chapter, partly autobiographical, she affirms the values she has found in a life devoted to the study of literature. Even the most polemical sections of the book are courteous and good-humored. Her own lucidity, range of reference, and passionate concern for literature are in themselves powerful affirmations of her argument.
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Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674445406
ISBN-13
9780674445406
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Product Key Features
Publication Name
In Defence of the Imagination
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
European / General, General, American / General
Series
The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
Publication Year
1984
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Series Volume Number
37
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Dame Helen is on the offensive, attacking, with the greatest gusto, the latest fads of the new criticism ... Learned, lucid, fearless, and funny, the Oxford emeritus professor is at war with pretentiousness and presumption., Dame Helen is on the offensive, attacking, with the greatest gusto, the latest fads of the new criticism... Learned, lucid, fearless, and funny, the Oxford emeritus professor is at war with pretentiousness and presumption., Her pages shine with learning, with her own pleasure in literature and her own perceptions: there is nothing negative or merely destructive in her criticisms.
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1982
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