If Not Critical
Autor Eric Griffiths Editat de Freya Johnstonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 mar 2018
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780198805298
ISBN-10: 0198805292
Pagini: 262
Dimensiuni: 147 x 223 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0198805292
Pagini: 262
Dimensiuni: 147 x 223 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Eric Griffiths used to deliver his lectures quickly, but I suggest you read them slowly. The 10 collected here in If Not Critical about some of the writers closest to his heart - Dante, Shakespeare, Racine, Primo Levi, Samuel Beckett - are richly textured, crammed with insight and often very funny. For anyone interested in how literature works, and why it matters, they are vital reading.
A collection of the controversial critic's lectures showcases his distinctive style and astonishing range [...] If Not Critical serves both as a memorial and a fitting companion piece to The Printed Voice: it is the printed voice of Griffiths. Compiled and edited by a former student, Freya Johnston, it's not exactly a work of scholarship, nor indeed of literary criticism or literary history - it is far too various and unorthodox to be summarised. It is a demonstration, rather, of the art of thinking aloud, on paper.
[T]his book deserves a wide audience... Ten of these scintillating, thought-provoking pieces are simply not enough.
Johnston, a former student, has gathered a fittingly eclectic selection of ten of [Griffith's] lectures, ranging from Dante to Rabelais and Eliot (T. S.) to Swift.
If Not Critical catches something of the movement of a speaking voice and the demands it makes on the listener. It is literary criticism 'to the moment' [] Griffiths is above all an apostle of close reading. He treats the passages he discusses as morally and psychologically instructive as well as semantically subtle. He attends to small details of syntax or diction, but he is also concerned with the big questions: mortality, morality, why we laugh at things [...] this book is a labour of intellectual devotion.
Mr Griffiths attracts superlatives. The Guardian once declared him the "cleverest man in England". Donald Davie, a poet and critic, called him the "rudest man in the kingdom". And for many of the pupils he taught over 30 years at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was the greatest teacher they ever had.
A collection of the controversial critic's lectures showcases his distinctive style and astonishing range [...] If Not Critical serves both as a memorial and a fitting companion piece to The Printed Voice: it is the printed voice of Griffiths. Compiled and edited by a former student, Freya Johnston, it's not exactly a work of scholarship, nor indeed of literary criticism or literary history - it is far too various and unorthodox to be summarised. It is a demonstration, rather, of the art of thinking aloud, on paper.
[T]his book deserves a wide audience... Ten of these scintillating, thought-provoking pieces are simply not enough.
Johnston, a former student, has gathered a fittingly eclectic selection of ten of [Griffith's] lectures, ranging from Dante to Rabelais and Eliot (T. S.) to Swift.
If Not Critical catches something of the movement of a speaking voice and the demands it makes on the listener. It is literary criticism 'to the moment' [] Griffiths is above all an apostle of close reading. He treats the passages he discusses as morally and psychologically instructive as well as semantically subtle. He attends to small details of syntax or diction, but he is also concerned with the big questions: mortality, morality, why we laugh at things [...] this book is a labour of intellectual devotion.
Mr Griffiths attracts superlatives. The Guardian once declared him the "cleverest man in England". Donald Davie, a poet and critic, called him the "rudest man in the kingdom". And for many of the pupils he taught over 30 years at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was the greatest teacher they ever had.
Notă biografică
Eric Griffiths is Fellow in English at Trinity College, Cambridge and Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry (Clarendon Press, 1989) and co-editor of Dante in English (Penguin, 2005).Freya Johnston is University Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow in English at St Anne's College, Oxford. She is the author of Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709-1791 (Oxford University Press, 2005), general editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock (Cambridge University Press, 2016-) and co-editor of Jane Austen's Teenage Writings (Oxford World's Classics, 2017).