{"product_id":"against-finality-inaugural-lecture-delivered-4th-february-1993-9780521459549","title":"Against Finality: Inaugural Lecture, Delivered 4th February 1993","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): John B. Beer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47591763148951,"sku":"9780521459549","price":3544.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780521459549.webp?v=1774974421","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/against-finality-inaugural-lecture-delivered-4th-february-1993-9780521459549","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}