Author: Frank Kermode
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: error, uses
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1991-02-01
List price: $57.50
ISBN-10: 0674931521
ISBN-13: 9780674931527

"The history of interpretation, the skills by which we keep alive in our minds the light and dark of past literature and past humanity, is to an incalculable extent a history of error." So writes Frank Kermode of a history to which he has contributed many luminous pages. This book is a record of Kermode’s "error," his wandering through literature past and present. He notes that "in thirty-odd years I have written several hundred reviews, an example I would strongly urge the young not to follow" From these hundreds Kermode has selected the pieces he treasures most, and they provide an ex

Author: Frank Kermode
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: forster, concerning
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2009-12-08
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0374298998
ISBN-13: 9780374298999

A major reassessment of the great English novelistThis impressive new book by the celebrated British critic Frank Kermode examines hitherto neglected aspects of the novelist E. M. Forster’s life and work. Kermode is interested to see how it was that this apparently shy, reclusive man should have claimed and kept such a central position in the English writing of his time, even though for decades he composed no fiction and he was not close to any of his great contemporaries—Henry James, Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce.Concerning E. M. Forster has at its core the Clark Lectures th

Author: Frank Kermode
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: change, permanence, images, literary, classic
Number of Pages: 142
Published: 1983-01-01
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0674133986
ISBN-13: 9780674133983

Author: Frank Kermode
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: memoir, entitled
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1999-06-04
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0374525927
ISBN-13: 9780374525927

From a great critic of english literature, a different kind of text: a luminous account of his own life. Throughout this uniquely personal work, Frank Kermode touches on the deeper, lighter, ineffable issues of autobiography, and he does so with his characteristic grace, precision, and amused wisdom. Tracing his life from his childhood through his six years in the Royal Navy during World War II, from his student days in Liverpool to his battles at Cambridge over the literature curriculum and faculty, he shows us the miraculous connections between life and literature, between the world and the

Author: Frank Kermode
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: eliot, norton, lectures, charles, narrative, secrecy, interpretation, genesis
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2006-12-23
List price: $25.50
ISBN-10: 0674345355
ISBN-13: 9780674345355

Frank Kermode has long held a distinctive place among modern critics. He brings to the study of literature a fine and fresh critical intelligence that is always richly suggestive, never modish. He offers here an inquiry--elegant in conception and style--into the art of interpretation. His subject quite simply is meanings; how they are revealed and how they are concealed. Drawing on the venerable tradition of biblical interpretation, Mr. Kermode examines some enigmatic passages and episodes in the gospels. From his reading come ideas about what makes interpretation possible--and often impo

Author: Frank Kermode
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: new, epilogue, fiction, theory, ending, studies, sense
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2000-04-06
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0195136128
ISBN-13: 9780195136128

Frank Kermode is one of our most distinguished critics of English literature. Here, he contributes a new epilogue to his collection of classic lectures on the relationship of fiction to age-old concepts of apocalyptic chaos and crisis. Prompted by the approach of the millennium, he revisits the book which brings his highly concentrated insights to bear on some of the most unyielding philosophical and aesthetic enigmas. Examining the works of writers from Plato to William Burrows, Kermode shows how they have persistently imposed their "fictions" upon the face of eternity and how these have ref

Authors:T. S. Eliot, Frank Kermode,
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, poems, land, waste
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2003-02-25
List price: $9.00
ISBN-10: 014243731X
ISBN-13: 9780142437315

While recovering from a mental collapse in a Swiss sanitarium in 1921, T. S. Eliot finished what became the definitive poem of the modern condition, one that still casts a large and ominous shadow over twentieth-century poetry. Built upon the imagery of the Grail legend, the Fisher King, and ancient fertility cults, "The Waste Land" is both a poetic diagnosis of an ailing civilization and a desperate quest for spiritual renewal. Through pastiche and collage Eliot unfolds a nightmarish landscape of sexual disorder and spiritual desolation, inhabited by the voice (literary, historical, mythic, c