{"product_id":"if-not-critical-eric-griffiths-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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric Griffiths\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198805292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198805298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/22\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\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","brand":"Eric Griffiths","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44054691807487,"sku":"9780198805298","price":46.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f8ddc188-a132-4553-afdf-ad27fee1d89e.jpg?v=1685031428","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/if-not-critical-eric-griffiths-9780198805298","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}