Literature and Belief : : English Institute Essays • 1957 / / M. H. Abrams.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• TeilnehmendeR: Abrams, M. H.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1958]; ©1958
• Year of Publication: 1958
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Foreword --; Contents --; Belief and the Suspension of Disbelief /; Tradition and Experience /; Implications of an Organic Theory of Poetry /; Voice as Summons for Belief /; The Collaboration of Vision in the Poetic Act: The Religious Dimension /; Wallace Stevens: The World as Meditation /; A Selected Bibliography --; Supervising Committee, the English Institute, 1957 --; The Program --; Registrants, 1957
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231885737; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/abra91840
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: M. H. Abrams.

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.