{"product_id":"selected-essays-in-criticism-paperback-9780521280839","title":"Selected Essays in Criticism (Paperback) 9780521280839","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSelected Essays in Criticism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn exploration of the conditions in which some classic authors came to produce their work.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eL. C. Knights (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521280839, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 1 June 1981\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e244 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.53 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis is a selection of essays by one of the most distinguished of modern literary critics, L. C. Knights, published as a companion volume to the selection of Professor Knights' Shakespearean essays, which appeared in 1979. The essays span almost four decades of critical work on authors as diverse as Marlowe, George Herbert, Clarendon and Henry James. At the centre of each essay is an attempt to elicit some essential quality in the author, or authors, discussed. Although each can be read as an isolated critical essay, the different pieces are linked by a pervasive interest in the conditions, social or personal, out of which particular works emerged, and in the way in which major works of the imagination are renewed as they are re-interpreted in successive generations. Throughout, the underlying assumption is that literary criticism needs to be 'pure' - the result of direct exposure to particular works - but that it cannot remain purely literary, if only because the meaning of literature includes its effects on the lives and conduct of individual human beings.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. The strange case of Christopher Marlowe\u003cbr\u003e 2. George Herbert\u003cbr\u003e 3. All or nothing: a theme in John Donne\u003cbr\u003e 4. Ben Jonson: public attitudes and social poetry\u003cbr\u003e 5. The social background of metaphysical poetry\u003cbr\u003e 6. Reflections on Clarendon's History of the Rebellion\u003cbr\u003e 7. Restoration comedy: the reality and the myth\u003cbr\u003e 8. Early Blake\u003cbr\u003e 9. Two notes on Coleridge\u003cbr\u003e 10. Idea and symbol: some hints from Coleridge\u003cbr\u003e 11. Henry James and the trapped spectator\u003cbr\u003e 12. Henry James and human liberty\u003cbr\u003e 13. Poetry and 'things hard for thought'\u003cbr\u003e 14. Literature and the teaching of literature.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006976381208,"sku":"9780521280839","price":27.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521280839i_dc2f9b39-d396-490e-aa6e-09b7a6552c30.jpg?v=1691374466","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/selected-essays-in-criticism-paperback-9780521280839","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}