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An Experiment in Criticism

Paperback • 1992 • English

An Experiment in Criticism

By C. S. Lewis

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About the book

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’. Cruci...Show more

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9780521422819

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

1992

Language

English

Original title

An Experiment in Criticism

Format

Paperback

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