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020			_a9781107698543
082			_a801.9 L5854 E _b102025
100	1		_aLewis C S
245	1	3	_aAn experiment in criticism, _cC. S. Lewis.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew Delhi _bCambridge University Press, _c2013
300			_a142 _c21 cm.
500			_aWhy do we read literature and how do we judge it? C. S. Lewis's classic An Experiment in Criticism springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He argues that 'good reading' like moral action or religious experience involves surrender to the work in hand and a process of entering fully into the opinions of others: 'in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself'. Crucial to his notion of judging literature is a commitment to laying aside expectations and values extraneous to the work in order to approach it with an open mind. Amid the complex welter of current critical theories C. S. Lewis's wisdom is valuably down-to-earth refreshing and stimulating in the questions it raises about the experience of reading.
505			_a1. The few and the many; 2. False characterisations; 3. How the few and the many use pictures and music; 4. The reading of the unliterary; 5. On myth; 6. The meanings of fantasy; 7. On realisms; 8. On misreading by the literary; 9. Survey; 10. Poetry; 11. The experiment; Epilogue; Appendix.
650		0	_aCriticism.
650		0	_aBooks and reading.
942			_cBK