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History and Value: The Clarendon Lectures and the Northcliffe Lectures 1987

by Frank Kermode

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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 st... Read more
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 the1930s - 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. Less

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File size8.5 X 5.43 X 0.47 in
Print pages160
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date April 30, 1999
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780198122241
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Frank Kermode
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Frank Kermode (1919- ) One of the most distinguished critics of our time. He has taught at numerous universities including Cambridge and Harvard. Kermode was knighted in 1991....

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