{"product_id":"if-not-critical-9780198805298","title":"If Not Critical","description":"Eric 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, and richly exemplified contributions to literary criticism and literary history. \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 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric Griffiths\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/22\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198805298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40937535635571,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":84.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_d11abd6e-fc7c-4917-93e4-a8252d09f543.jpg?v=1693314788","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/if-not-critical-9780198805298","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}