Is Shakespeare Any Good?: And Other Questions On How To Evaluate Literature
by Richard Bradford /
2015 / English / PDF
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Is Shakespeare any Good? reveals why certain literaryworks and authors are treated as superior to others, and questionsthe literary establishment's criteria for creating animperium of “great” writers.
- Enables readers to articulate and formulate their own argumentsabout the quality of literature - including works thatconvention forbids us to dislike
- Dismantles the claims of academic criticism -particularly Theory - to tell us anything useful about why welike or appreciate literature
- Challenges and shatters many longstanding beliefs aboutliterature and its evaluation
- Poses serious questions about the value of literature, andstudying literature, and presents these in a lively andentertainingly provocative manner
