Further Explorations: Essays In Criticism
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Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
A towering figure in mid-twentieth-century literary criticism, L. C. Knights — King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge — presents in Further Explorations: Essays in Criticism a rigorous and illuminating sequence of critical essays that push the boundaries of how we read and understand English literature. Building on the groundwork laid by his landmark earlier collection Explorations, Knights turns his formidable critical intelligence to a range of texts and authors, arguing passionately for a mode of reading that unites close textual attention with a broad moral and cultural awareness. Knights writes with the clarity and authority of a scholar who believes that literature is inseparable from the life of the mind and of society, and his prose carries both the precision of the Cambridge school of criticism and the warmth of a genuine humanist. The essays gathered here touch on Shakespeare, the metaphysical poets, and the nature of critical method itself, illustrating how great writing illuminates the human condition across centuries. For anyone serious about the craft of literary criticism, Further Explorations remains an indispensable and quietly provocative guide to what it truly means to read.
Author: L. C. Knights
Format: Hardback
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
A towering figure in mid-twentieth-century literary criticism, L. C. Knights — King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge — presents in Further Explorations: Essays in Criticism a rigorous and illuminating sequence of critical essays that push the boundaries of how we read and understand English literature. Building on the groundwork laid by his landmark earlier collection Explorations, Knights turns his formidable critical intelligence to a range of texts and authors, arguing passionately for a mode of reading that unites close textual attention with a broad moral and cultural awareness. Knights writes with the clarity and authority of a scholar who believes that literature is inseparable from the life of the mind and of society, and his prose carries both the precision of the Cambridge school of criticism and the warmth of a genuine humanist. The essays gathered here touch on Shakespeare, the metaphysical poets, and the nature of critical method itself, illustrating how great writing illuminates the human condition across centuries. For anyone serious about the craft of literary criticism, Further Explorations remains an indispensable and quietly provocative guide to what it truly means to read.