Addressing Frank Kermode: Essays in Criticism and Interpretation (Warwick studies in the European humanities) - Hardcover

Tudeau-Clayton, Margaret; Warner, Professor Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 033353137X ISBN 13: 9780333531372

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1991

Synopsis

Sir Frank Kermode's work has been and remains seminal for students of English literature; he has been described as ‘easily the most intelligent critic now writing'. In the first group of these essays leading scholars from the fields of literary criticism and philosophy critically address Kermode's texts, raising questions about his representation of literary study as hermeneutic activity and his recourse to the religious analogy, together with his account of the relations between texts and what is ‘hors-texte' (history and nature); questions to which Kermode himself responds. A second group, in which distinguished scholars develop their own interpretive strategies in the light of Kermode's work, further illustrates the fertility and reverberations of his thinking.

About this title

Synopsis

Frank Kermode's work has always been important to students of English literature. In these essays, leading scholars critically assess Kermode's texts and question his representation of literary study, offering their own interpretative strategies.

About the Author

Philippa Berry is a Fellow and Director of Studies in English at King's College, Cambridge.
Margaret Tudeau-Clayton teaches English at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 033353137X
• ISBN 13: 9780333531372
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192