History and Value

The Clarendon Lectures and the Northcliffe Lectures 1987

AvFrank Kermode

Häftad, Engelska, 1989

Del 1 i serien Clarendon Lectures

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Beskrivning

Frank Kermode returns to the literature of his youth to ask why we appear to have forgotten how urgent and powerful it seemed in a time of economic crisis and imminent world war. The general questions suggested by the title are answered first by a study of bourgeois left wing literature in the 1930s - including a case study of a forgotten novel of the period (Stephen Haggard's Nya, OPB, 1988) - and then by a consideration of the problem of value in work belonging to a period earlier than one's own. The last chapter concentrates on the most recent attempt to make these issues manageable - namely, postmodernism, which rejects all notions of wholeness, and speaks of a catastrophic break with the past.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1989-06-08
Mått:139 x 216 x 12 mm
Vikt:233 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Clarendon Lectures
Antal sidor:160
Förlag:Clarendon Press
ISBN:9780198122241

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'it is a bold and expert defence of the '30s writers, in which historical perspective and personal memory work to show how practical criticism and a sense of period can recuperate literature and clarify criticism ... an eloquence that is inseparable from the clarity of his argument and the gravity of his purpose.' The Age