Forms of Attention - Botticelli and Hamlet (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2011
First published:	September 2011
Authors:	Frank Kermode
Foreword by:	Frank Lentricchia
Dimensions:	193 x 440 x 1mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	112
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-43175-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare studies & criticism
LSN:	0-226-43175-4
Barcode:	9780226431758

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