{"product_id":"a-companion-to-literary-evaluation-9781119409854","title":"A Companion to Literary Evaluation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first critical survey of its kind devoted solely to literary evaluation Companion to Literary Evaluation bridges the gap between the non-academic literary world, where evaluation is deeply ingrained, and the world of academia, where evaluation is rarely considered. Encouraging readers to formulate and articulate arguments that balance instinctive judgment and reasoned assessment, this unique volume addresses key issues regarding literary values from the perspective of analytical aesthetics and the philosophy of literature. Bringing together a diverse panel of contributors, the Companion explores competing theories of literary evaluation, the reasons for evaluating theater and lyric poetry in performance, the question of value in literary theory, debates over Modernism's negative impact on literature,  the possibility of evaluating aesthetic beauty through scientific and formalist methods, the nature and status of literary evaluation as a branch of criticism, aesthetics in applied a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on contributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction, by Richard Bradford\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Literary Values, Peter Lamarque\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Complexity as a Criterion for the Evaluation of Literature, Anja Müller\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWood\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Schooled Aesthetic Asymmetries: (Back)firing the Canon in Secondary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEducation, D.J. Howells\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Defining Literature: The Route to Aesthetic Evaluation, Paolo Euron\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Kathleen Raine: the Less Received, Andrew Keanie\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6: “Is (This) Translation Any Good?”: The Evaluation of Literary Translation,\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGiuseppe Sofo\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7: The Algorithm of Beauty: Aesthetic Judgement as a Science, Madelena\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGonzalez\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Literary value and the question of insight on humanly relevant matters,\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmanuela Tegla\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9: How books get reviewed: Evaluation and the freelance journalist, D J\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTaylor\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 10: A Lifetime of Evaluation, Penny Stenning\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Evaluating Unfinished Novels: Octavia E. Butler and the Improbability\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eof Justice, Rafe McGregor\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 12: “How to Bring So Goode a Matter into a Better Forme’’: the Value of the\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHorse in Early Modern Writing, Elisabetta Deriu\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 13: Reading performance for the values underpinning production, Amanda\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinch\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 14: Bridging the gap between Page and Performance Poetry, Karen\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSimecek\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 15: Aesthetics and Efficacy in Applied and Community Theatre, Dónall Mac\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCathmhaoill\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 16: Antonin Artaud Beyond Judgement: A radio reading of ‘To Have Done\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith The Judgement Of God’ with local prisoners, Gary Anderson and Niamh\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMalone\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 17: “Chief of the Second-Rate”: James Shirley and Dramatic Value, Heidi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCraig\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 18: “The Glories of our Blood and State” and The Lady of Pleasure: The\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGenius of [Counterfactual] Britain’s National Writer - James Shirley, Kevin De Ornellas\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 19: Evaluating Literary Evaluation, Peter Barry\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 20: The Horrible Legacy of Modernism, Richard Bradford\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 21: Evaluating Poems, Amy Burns and Richard Bradford\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53515638341975,"sku":"9781119409854","price":108.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-companion-to-literary-evaluation-9781119409854","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}