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Forms of Attention: Botticelli and Hamlet (Wellek Library Lectures) Book

Sir Frank Kermode, the British scholar, teacher, 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 opening 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.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    Includes essay on Botticelli that traces the artist's sudden popularity in the nineteenth century for reasons that have more to do with poetry than painting. Sir Frank Kermode, the British scholar, teacher, and author, was an inspired critic.

  • 0226431754
  • 9780226431758
  • Frank Kermode
  • 7 October 2011
  • University of Chicago Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 112
  • Reprint
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