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Forms of Attention (Wellek Library Lectures at the University of California, Irvine) by FRANK KERMODE is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Sir Frank Kermode, the British scholar, instructor, 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 essay on Botticelli traces the artists 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 withand forliterature.

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Author

FRANK KERMODE

Publisher

Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Published

1984

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226431680

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, History

Rating

4.11 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14