In Defence of the Imagination

by Helen Gardner and Helen Gardner

Book Overview

Helen Gardner is a vigorous and eloquent champion of traditional literary values. These values have been subverted, she feels, by some of the ablest of modern academics and by prevalent tendencies in criticism and teaching today. She discusses the new schools of criticism which exalt the sometimes unintelligible theorist above the creator of the work of art, the imaginative interpreter of life, or which replace the authority of the author with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674445406
• ISBN13: 9780674445406
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"