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The Sense of an Ending
- Studies in the Theory of Fiction
Engelsk Paperback
The Sense of an Ending
- Studies in the Theory of Fiction
Engelsk Paperback

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Frank Kermode is one of our most distinguished and beloved 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 Burroughs, 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.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9780195136128
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0195136128
Udg. Dato:
4 maj 2000
Længde:
14mm
Bredde:
141mm
Højde:
218mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press Inc
Oplagsdato:
4 maj 2000
Forfatter(e):
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