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by Eric Griffiths (Author)
Eric Griffiths delivered hundreds of lectures at the Faculty of English in Cambridge, yet his lectures were never turned into books. If Not Critical brings together ten lectures, published here for the first time, that offer a representative selection of Dr Griffiths' original, fully-argued,
and richly exemplified contributions to literary criticism and literary history.
narrow 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
attention 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.
Author Biography
Eric Griffiths, Fellow in English, Trinity College, Cambridge; Lecturer in English, University of Cambridge University
Number of Pages: 272
Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.6 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: May 22, 2018
