The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue by Kermode, Frank
The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue by Kermode, Frank

The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue

Frank Kermode is one of our most distinguished critics of English literature. Here, he contributes a new...
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The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue by Kermode, Frank

The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue

CHF 45.64
The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue by Kermode, Frank

The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue

CHF 45.64
Author: Frank Kermode
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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 reflected the apocalyptic spirit. Kermode then discusses literature at a time when new fictive explanations, as used by Spenser and Shakespeare, were being devised to fit a world of uncertain beginning and end. He goes on to deal perceptively with modern literature with "traditionalists" such as Yeats, Eliot, and Joyce, as well as contemporary "schismatics," the French "new novelists," and
such seminal figures as Jean-Paul Sartre and Samuel Beckett. Whether weighing the difference between modern and earlier modes of apocalyptic thought, considering the degeneration of fiction into myth, or commenting on the vogue of the Absurd, Kermode is distinctly lucid, persuasive, witty, and prodigal of ideas.


Author: Frank Kermode
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/06/2000
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.52w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9780195136128

About the Author

Frank Kermode was formerly King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, Cambridge University.



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