UID:
almafu_9959329180402883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781118220009
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1118220005
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9781118447529
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1118447522
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9781118219973
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111821997X
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9781118219980
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1118219988
Content:
Is Shakespeare any Good? reveals why certain literary works and authors are treated as superior to others, and questions the literary establishment's criteria for creating an imperium of "great" writers.-Enables readers to articulate and formulate their own arguments about the quality of literature - including works that convention forbids us to dislike -Dismantles the claims of academic criticism - particularly Theory - to tell us anything useful about why we like or appreciate literature -Challenges and shatters many longstanding beliefs about literature and its evaluation -Poses serious questions about the value of literature, and studying literature, and presents these in a lively and entertainingly provocative manner.
Note:
A brief essay on taste -- The dreadful legacy of modernism -- Is Shakespeare any good? -- Mad theories -- Defining literature: the bete noir of academia -- Evaluation -- Popular literature -- Is literature any good for us?
Additional Edition:
Print version: Bradford, Richard, 1957- Is Shakespeare any good? Malden, MA : John Wiley and Sons, 2015 ISBN 9781118220016
Language:
English
Keywords:
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URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118219980
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118219980
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118219980
