An experiment in criticism

by C.S. Lewis

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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[目次]

  • 1. The few and the many
  • 2. False characterisations
  • 3. How the few and the many use pictures and music
  • 4. The reading of the unliterary
  • 5. On myth
  • 6. The meanings of fantasy
  • 7. On realisms
  • 8. On misreading by the literary
  • 9. Survey
  • 10. Poetry
  • 11. The experiment
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix.

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書名 An experiment in criticism
著作者等 Lewis, C. S.
Lewis C. S.
シリーズ名 Cambridge paperbacks
Canto
出版元 Cambridge University Press
刊行年月 1992, c1961
版表示 Canto ed
ページ数 142 p.
大きさ 22 cm
ISBN 9781107604728
9780521422819
NCID BA14370340
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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