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In Defence of the Imagination

In Defence of the Imagination( )
Author: Gardner, Helen
Series title:The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
ISBN:978-0-674-44540-6
Publication Date:Jan 1984
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $51.99
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:224
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13.97 x 20.955 x 1.27 cm
Book Weight:0.227 Kilograms



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