A Study of Literature: For Readers and Critics

by David Daiches

Book Overview

Why do we spend time reading and discussing books which tell of events which never in fact occurred? The question is elementary - and yet, as David Daiches suggests in this provocative study, it is the elementary questions that are never answered. Although literary criticism today is more concerned with technique than with the basic question of value, the question of value underlies all the others. Professor Daiches therefore directs this book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393002691
• ISBN13: 9780393002690
• Release Date: November 1964
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"