Against Finality: Inaugural Lecture, Delivered 4th February 1993

By John Beer

Since the rise of scientific thinking in the seventeenth century the role of the imagination in literature has been a matter for debate. Is it an essential resource, or a treacherous purveyor of illusions? In this lecture Professor Beer suggests that one result of this uncertainty has been to set up a divison (which continues to pervade literary enterprises) between imaginative flights on the one hand and the weighing of words on the other. His examples are drawn from a wide range of writers, including Johnson, Dickens, Hopkins, Woolf and Wordsworth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521459540
• ISBN13: 9780521459549
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 0.14 lbs.
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