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He Knew He Was Right
Av Anthony Trollope, Frank Kermode
Häftad, 1994
179 kr
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Anthony Trollope's story of one man's obsessive self-deception pitted against against the enduring power of his wife's love, He Knew He Was Right is edited with an introduction by Frank Kermode in Penguin Classics.On a visit to the Mandarin Islands, Louis Trevelyan falls in love with Emily, the …
Literary Guide to the Bible
Av Robert Alter, Frank Kermode
Häftad, 1990
406 kr
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Rediscover the incomparable literary richness and strength of a book that all of us live with an many of us live by. An international team of renowned scholars, assembled by two leading literary critics, offers a book-by-book guide through the Old and New Testaments as well as general essays on the …
Way We Live Now
Av Anthony Trollope, Frank Kermode
Häftad, 1994
169 kr
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The Way We Live Now is Anthony Trollope's radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism, edited with an introduction and notes by Frank Kermode in Penguin Classics.Augustus Melmotte is a fraudulent foreign financier who preys on dissolute nobility - using charm to tempt …
Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose (LOA #96)
Av Frank Kermode, Wallace Stevens m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
535 kr
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“Undoubtedly, the single finest collection of Wallace Stevens ever produced.” — Library Journal Wallace Stevens’s unique voice combined meditative speculation and what he called “the essential gaudiness of poetry” in a body of work of astonishing profusion and exuberance, poems that have remained …
Pleasure and Change
The Aesthetics of Canon
Av Frank Kermode, Robert Alter
Häftad, 2006
579 kr
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The question of the canon has been the subject of debate in academic circles for over fifteen years. Pleasure and Change contains two lectures on this important subject by the distinguished literary critic Sir Frank Kermode. In essays that were originally delivered as Tanner Lectures at Berkeley in …
The Sense of an Ending
Studies in the Theory of Fiction
Häftad, 2000
324 kr
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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 …
Shakespeare's Language
Häftad, 2001
179 kr
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The true biography of Shakespeare - and the only one we really need to care about - is in the plays. Sir Frank Kermode, Britain's most distinguished literary critic, has been thinking about them all his life. This book is a distillation of that lifetime's thinking. The great English tragedies were …
He Knew He Was Right
Av Anthony Trollope, Frank Kermode
E-bok, 1994
96 kr
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Louis Trevelyan unjustly accuses his wife Emily of a liaison with a friend of her father's. As his suspicion deepens into madness, Trollope gives a psychological study in which Louis's obsessive delirium is comparable to the tormented figure of Othello, tragically flawed by self-deception.
Way We Live Now
Av Anthony Trollope, Frank Kermode
E-bok, 1994
96 kr
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Augustus Melmotte is a fraudulent foreign financier who preys on dissolute nobility - using charm to tempt the weak into making foolish investments in his dubious schemes. Persuaded to put money into a notional plot to run a railroad from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, the capricious gambler Felix …
Figure in the Carpet and Other Stories
E-bok, 2007
108 kr
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The stories in this collection were written mostly between 1888 and 1897, a time when Henry James’s writing was concerned with the art of fiction and the position of the artist in society. The motif and title story, ‘The Figure in the Carpet’, is an inspired joke, a masterpiece of double-entendre …
Shakespeare's Language
E-bok, 2001
108 kr
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The true biography of Shakespeare - and the only one we really need to care about - is in the plays. Sir Frank Kermode, Britain's most distinguished literary critic, has been thinking about them all his life. This book is a distillation of that lifetime's thinking. The great English tragedies were …
The Oxford Book of Letters
Av Anita Kermode, Frank Kermode m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
535 kr
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Reading other people's letters, like reading private diaries, offers thrilling and unexpected glimpses into their lives, and it is partly the guilty pleasure we take in such literary eavesdropping that makes this volume so compelling. More than 300 letters spanning five centuries chronicle the …
Sense of an Ending
Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue
E-bok, 2000
244 kr
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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 …
History and Value
The Clarendon Lectures and the Northcliffe Lectures 1987
Häftad, 1989
860 kr
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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 …
Between the Acts
Av Virginia Woolf, Frank Kermode
Häftad, 2008
106 kr
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Between the Acts is Virginia Woolf's last novel, and in her own opinion it was `more quintessential' than any of her others. Set in the summer of 1939 on the day of the annual village pageant at Pointz Hall, the book weaves together the musings of several disparate characters and their reactions to …
Sense of an Ending
Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue
E-bok, 2000
274 kr
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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 …
Forms of Attention
Botticelli and Hamlet
Häftad, 2011
196 kr
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Sir Frank Kermode, the British scholar, teacher, and author, was an inspired critic. "Forms of Attention" is based on a series of three lectures he gave on canon formation, or how we choose what art to value. The opening essay, on Botticelli, traces the artist's sudden popularity in the nineteenth …
Concerning E.M. Forster
E-bok, 2009
45 kr
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A major reassessment of the one of the greatest English novelist of the twentieth century, from celebrated critic Sir Frank Kermode. CONCERNING E.M. FORSTER is a rich, varied and original portrait of a literary great. When Sir Frank Kermode delivered the Clark Lectures at Cambridge University, he …
Duchess of Malfi
Seven Masterpieces of Jacobean Drama
E-bok, 2010
121 kr
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Edited and with an Introduction by Frank Kermode A Woman Killed with Kindness by Thomas Heywood Volpone by Ben Jonson The Revenger’s Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur The Maid’s Tragedy by John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont A Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Thomas Middleton The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster …
Shakespeare: King Lear
Inbunden, 1992
1634 kr
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This revised edition of the successful Casebook first published in 1969, has been brought up-to-date with the inclusion of more recent criticism, whilst retaining early comments and critiques. Contributors include A.C.Bradley, A.Wilson Knight, Enid Welsford, George Orwell, Robert B.Heilman, Barbara …
Shakespeare: King Lear
Häftad, 1992
528 kr
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This revised edition of the successful Casebook first published in 1969, has been brought up-to-date with the inclusion of more recent criticism, whilst retaining early comments and critiques. Contributors include A.C.Bradley, A.Wilson Knight, Enid Welsford, George Orwell, Robert B.Heilman, Barbara …
Creative Lives and Works
Raymond Firth, Audrey Richards, Lucy Mair, Meyer Fortes and Edmund Leach
Av Alan Macfarlane, Jack Goody m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2890 kr
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Creative Lives and Works: Raymond Firth, Audrey Richards, Lucy Mair, Meyer Fortes and Edmund Leach is a collection of interviews conducted by one of England’s leading social anthropologists and historians, Professor Alan Macfarlane. Filmed over a period of 40 years, the five conversations in this …
Romantic Image
Häftad, 2001
276 kr
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For the past four decades Frank Kermode, critic and writer, has steadily established himself as one of the most brilliant minds of his generation. Questioning the public's harsh perception of 'the artist', Kermode at the same time gently pokes fun at artists' own, often inflated, self-image. He …
Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne
Renaissance Essays
Inbunden, 2004
8721 kr
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First published in 1971.This collection of essays discusses some of the central works and areas of literature in the Renaissance period of cultural history.Contents include: Spenser and the Allegorists; The Faerie Queene, I and V; The Cave of Mammon; The Banquet of Sense; John Donne; The Patience …
Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne
Renaissance Essays
Häftad, 2014
1047 kr
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First published in 1971.This collection of essays discusses some of the central works and areas of literature in the Renaissance period of cultural history.Contents include: Spenser and the Allegorists; The Faerie Queene, I and V; The Cave of Mammon; The Banquet of Sense; John Donne; The Patience …
Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot
Häftad, 1975
215 kr
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'Literary criticism is a distinctive activity of the civilised mind.' With Eliot's dictum in mind, Professor Kermode has selected from the whole range of his critical writings, some of them dating back to before 1918. There are essays of generalisation, appreciations of individual writers, and a …
Appetite for Poetry
Inbunden, 1989
585 kr
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Frank Kermode is the preeminent practitioner of the art of criticism in the English-speaking world. As such his task entails the readiness to evaluate in general terms the widest range of texts, both ancient and modern, and also the ability to make public sense of the seemingly arcane debates about …
