{"product_id":"if-not-critical-hardcover","title":"If Not Critical - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEric Griffiths\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEric Griffiths delivered hundreds of lectures at the Faculty of English in Cambridge, yet his lectures were never turned into books. \u003cem\u003eIf Not Critical\u003c\/em\u003e brings together ten lectures, published here for the first time, that offer a representative selection of Dr Griffiths' original, fully-argued, \u003cbr\u003eand richly exemplified contributions to literary criticism and literary history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCrammed into his writing are decades of reading in several languages and across most genres and literary periods. In these lectures, he pursues the blind spots not only of other people's arguments, but of the whole business of criticism in general, with what he calls its 'over-concentration on a\u003cbr\u003enarrow range of examples . . . such over-concentration warps our thinking'. Implicit and explicit throughout his work is the argument that 'an appropriately wide range of instances is essential to making progress in conceptualisation'; that what we need, in order to do better thinking, is 'a keener\u003cbr\u003eattention to a greater variety of examples'. Such examples include, in these lectures, the works of Shakespeare, Dante, Kafka, Beckett, Racine, Rabelais, T. S. Eliot, and Jonathan Swift.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEric Griffiths, \u003cem\u003eFellow in English, Trinity College, Cambridge; Lecturer in English, University of Cambridge University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEric Griffiths is Fellow in English at Trinity College, Cambridge and Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e (Clarendon Press, 1989) and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eDante in English\u003c\/em\u003e (Penguin, 2005). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFreya Johnston is University Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow in English at St Anne's College, Oxford. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eSamuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709-1791\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford University Press, 2005), general editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge University Press, 2016-) and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eJane Austen's Teenage Writings\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford World's Classics, 2017).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.6 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 22, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47454585815218,"sku":"9780198805298","price":87.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/4a7e5c867b58b76c917b2b6997e2b899.webp?v=1778855046","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/if-not-critical-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}