Kermode: The ∗art∗ Of Telling: Essays On Fiction (cloth) - Hardcover

KERMODE, F

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674048288 ISBN 13: 9780674048287

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1983

Synopsis

Kermode assesses the revolutionary transformations in literary criticism over the last fifteen years and places them in historical perspective. Examining novels ranging in scope from a 1907 bestseller to the avant-garde works of various periods, he includes such writers as Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Michel Butor, and Thomas Pynchon.

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Review:

It is a matter of some moment when a distinguished and dispassionate critic such asFrank Kermode ... offers what he calls a 'recuperative' response to contemporary literary criticism ...Through a careful analysis of authors ranging from Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John to Joseph Conrad and writers of detective fiction, he demonstrates in this book what can be gained, and what discarded, from all the fury of contemporary criticism ... Here is a badly needed voice of reason. The middle ground of serious criticism has so far found its clearest, most wide-ranging advocate in Kermode; and his new book...is an important one - ecumenical, level acute.--Kirkus Reviews

Synopsis:

Discusses the English novel, literary themes, the nature of reading, narrative sequence, and rules of modern literary criticism.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0674048288
• ISBN 13: 9780674048287
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240