Bewilderments of Vision

by Oliver Tearle

Book Overview

According to Oscar Wilde, the primary aim of the critic is to see the object as in itself it really is not'. Through a series of close and often unusual readings, this book endeavours to develop Wilde's remark into a detailed and creative theory of reading. Or perhaps that should be misreading: for, as this experimental work of criticism negotiates its way among the works of a number of late-nineteenth-century writers, particularly Robert Louis Stevenson...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184519294X
• ISBN13: 9781845192945
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"