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The Classic: Literary Images of Permanence and Change (The T.S. Eliot memorial lectures) - Hardcover
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Kermode is one of the rare critics and scholars it is in any case uncommon to he both who offer a new and unusual insight on whatever author or topic they turn to.
Kermodehas one of the finest minds in contemporary criticism, and there is nothing that he touches that he does not in some unexpected way to use some of his own termstranslate, renovate, eternalize.
Taking as his central concept 'the classic, ' the literary work we speak of as enduring, Kermode asks how a text can retain its identity as its time-hound readers change . . . "The Classic" is an enormously suggestive book . elegant and accessible.
The subtitle ... modestly describes the tensions that generate the remarkable energy of this highly original study. The old conception of classic, Kermode argues, is tied to Virgilian attitudes of empire and eternity; the modern use of the term embraces change, plurality and secularization. "The Classic" brilliantly mediates between the two views of literature and culture . . . This closely argued and clearly articulated essay . .rests on formidable learning.
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Kermodehas one of the finest minds in contemporary criticism, and there is nothing that he touches that he does not in some unexpected way to use some of his own termstranslate, renovate, eternalize.
Taking as his central concept 'the classic, ' the literary work we speak of as enduring, Kermode asks how a text can retain its identity as its time-hound readers change . . . "The Classic" is an enormously suggestive book . elegant and accessible.
The subtitle ... modestly describes the tensions that generate the remarkable energy of this highly original study. The old conception of classic, Kermode argues, is tied to Virgilian attitudes of empire and eternity; the modern use of the term embraces change, plurality and secularization. "The Classic" brilliantly mediates between the two views of literature and culture . . . This closely argued and clearly articulated essay . .rests on formidable learning.
Frank Kermode is Julian Clarence Levi Professor of English Literature, Columbia University, and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.
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The Classic: Literary Images of Permanence and Change (The T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures)
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Abrasions to cloth boards. Previous owner's signature in pencil. Some foxing to endpapers. Dust-jacket with moderate wear and marks. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 141 pages. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 214 x 136mm. Literary criticism, aesthetics, philosophy of literature. Includes a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne, in relation to geologist and biologist Louis Agassiz (pp. 95-99). "These reflections had their origin in T. S. Eliot's paper 'What is a Classic?', which he delivered to the Virgil Society in 1944. Having thought a good deal about that paper, and about related essays, I was very glad to be able to oblige myself to explore more systematically the implications of Eliot's position, and to try to reconcile them with my own thoughts on the subject." - from the author's Preface. Seller Inventory # 18545
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