In Defence of the Imagination
(Part of the The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures Series)
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0674445422
ISBN13:9780674445420
Release Date:January 1982
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:204 Pages
Weight:0.92 lbs.
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