Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/A1UAbV Forms of Attention Botticelli and Hamlet By: Frank Kermode Publisher: University of Chicago Press Print ISBN: 9780226431758, 0226431754 eText ISBN: 9780226431765, 0226431762 Edition: 1st Copyright year: 2011 Format: EPUB Available from $ 16.00 USD SKU 9780226431765 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 artist’s 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 with—and for—literature.
