Is Shakespeare any Good?: And Other Questions on How to Evaluate Literature by Richard Bradford
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1118220013 | 344 Pages | PDF | 7.6 MB
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1118220013 | 344 Pages | PDF | 7.6 MB
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