TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abrams,M.H.
TI  - Literature and Belief: English Institute Essays • 1957 
SN  - 9780231918404
PY  - 1958///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Foreword --; Contents --; Belief and the Suspension of Disbelief /; Abrams, M. H. --; Tradition and Experience /; Bush, Douglas --; Implications of an Organic Theory of Poetry /; Brooks, Cleanth --; Voice as Summons for Belief /; Ong, Walter J. --; The Collaboration of Vision in the Poetic Act: The Religious Dimension /; Scott, Nathan A. --; Wallace Stevens: The World as Meditation /; Martz, Louis L. --; A Selected Bibliography --; Supervising Committee, the English Institute, 1957 --; The Program --; Registrants, 1957; restricted access
N2  - A collection of essays on the topic of belief -- or the suspension of disbelief -- in the reading and appreciation of literature. While the essays display diverse approaches to the topic, they all agree that a work of literature is to be apprehended for its inherent and terminal values, but that it involves assumptions and beliefs and sympathies with which a large measure of concurrence is indispensable for the reading of literature as literature and not another thing
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/abra91840
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