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An Experiment in Criticism
by Lewis, C. S
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good, 1st edition, 1st printing, d/j not priceclipped (in protective sleeve); dark blue clothbound boards, gilt on black pa
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About This Item
London, New York, Ibandan: Cambridge University Press, 1961. 1st. h/b. Very good, 1st edition, 1st printing, d/j not priceclipped (in protective sleeve); dark blue clothbound boards, gilt on black panel spine titling; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp; donor's inscription on ffep verso. Printer's stamp on final endpaper.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C. S. Lewis's classic An Experiment in Criticism springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He argues that 'good reading', like moral action or religious experience, involves surrender to the work in hand and a process of entering fully into the opinions of others: 'in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself'. Crucial to his notion of judging literature is a commitment to laying aside expectations and values extraneous to the work, in order to approach it with an open mind. Amid the complex welter of current critical theories, C. S. Lewis's wisdom is valuably down-to-earth, refreshing and stimulating in the questions it raises about the experience of reading.
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- Inklings & Yarnspinners
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC133264
- Title
- An Experiment in Criticism
- Author
- Lewis, C. S
- Format/Binding
- H/b
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, 1st edition, 1st printing, d/j not priceclipped (in protective sleeve); dark blue clothbound boards, gilt on black pa
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- London, New York, Ibandan
- Date Published
- 1961
- Pages
- 141
- Size
- 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5"")
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, literary criticism, literature, Inklings, CSLewis
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- 2nd-hand books;
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INKLINGS & YARNSPINNERSA new online bookshop forFIRST & SIGNED EDITIONS, RARE BOOKSA particular focus on:- The Oxford Inklings with their Friends & Influences (C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Barfield, Williams, Chesterton, Macdonald, Sayers, etc)- Great 20th Century Novelists (e.g. Graham Greene & John le Carré; Anthony Powell & Evelyn Waugh; P. D. James etc)- Great 20th Century Poets (e.g. T. S. Eliot, John Masefield, Walter de la Mare, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Stevie Smith, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Dylan Thomas, etc)- Christian Theology (e.g. from library sales)
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