History and Value: The Clarendon Lectures and the Northcliffe Lectures 1987
by Frank Kermode
2020-11-24 15:57:21
History and Value: The Clarendon Lectures and the Northcliffe Lectures 1987
by Frank Kermode
2020-11-24 15:57:21
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...
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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 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.
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