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Sir Frank Kermode, the British scholar, instructor, and author, was an inspired critic. Forms of Attention is based on a series of three lectures he gave on canon formation, or how we choose what art to value. The essay on Botticelli traces the artist's sudden popularity in the nineteenth century for reasons that have more to do with poetry than painting. In the second essay, Kermode reads Hamlet from a very modern angle, offering a useful (and playful) perspective for a contemporary audience. The final essay is a defense of literary criticism as a process and conversation that, while often conflating knowledge with opinion, keeps us reading great art and working with-and for-literature. "Kermode's volume has the virtue of a lecturer's accessible style designed for a listening audience. It is also self-consciously spare of 'naked criticism.' There is, nonetheless, an abundance of learned commentary, steady substance, and unveiled critical excellence. Which is to say the volume is a useful and engaging reflection of its learned author."-London Review of Books
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- Publication date1987
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Book Description Broschiert / Paperback. Condition: Gut. Auflage: Reprint. XV, 93 Seiten / p. altersgemäß sehr guter Zustand / very good condition for age - In three concise, elegant essays, one of our most distinguished critics addresses the problems of canon formation and function. Describing the formation of the Botticelli canon, Kermode clarifies the critically valuable distinction between interpretation and fact. His second essay, which he calls a scherzo on Hamlet, demonstrates the continuing fertility of interpretation even in the most unshakably canonical of works. Last, Kermode shows how disentangling opinion from knowledge is less important than preserving what we value against loss, an aim his own efforts eloquently serve. ISBN 9780226431703 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 23. Seller Inventory # 1202877
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