Forms of Attention: Botticelli and Hamlet by Kermode, Frank

Forms of Attention: Botticelli and Hamlet (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226431758)

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Forms of Attention: Botticelli and Hamlet by Kermode, Frank

Forms of Attention: Botticelli and Hamlet

$19.00
Forms of Attention: Botticelli and Hamlet by Kermode, Frank

Forms of Attention: Botticelli and Hamlet

$19.00
Format: Paperback
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Sir Frank Kermode, the British scholar, instructor, and author, was an inspired critic. Forms of Attention is based on a series of three lectures he gave on canon formation, or how we choose what art to value. The essay on Botticelli traces the artist's sudden popularity in the nineteenth century for reasons that have more to do with poetry than painting. In the second essay, Kermode reads Hamlet from a very modern angle, offering a useful (and playful) perspective for a contemporary audience. The final essay is a defense of literary criticism as a process and conversation that, while often conflating knowledge with opinion, keeps us reading great art and working with--and for--literature.

Author: Frank Kermode
ISBN-10: 0226431754
ISBN-13: 9780226431758
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 09/30/2011
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.40d
By Frank Kermode
By Frank Kermode
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Frank Kermode (1919 2010) was a British literary critic who taught English literature at University College London, the University of Cambridge, Columbia University, and Harvard University. His criticism was regularly featured in the "London Review of Books" and the "New York Review of Books," and he was the author of many books including "The Sense of an Ending"; "The Classic"; "The Genesis of Secrecy"; and, most recently, "Concerning E. M. Forster." Kermode was knighted in 1991."

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