Hamlet's Castle: The Study of Literature as a Social Experience

by Gordon H. Mills

Book Overview

Hamlet's Castle is both a theoretical and a practical examination of the interactions that take place in a literary classroom. The book traces the source of literature's power to the relationship between its illusional quality and its abstract meaning and relates these elements to the process by which a group, typically an academic class, forms a judgment about a literary work. In focusing on the importance of the exchange of ideas by readers,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292742274
• ISBN13: 9780292742277
• Release Date: August 1976
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"