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  • The Sense of an Ending

    Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue

    by Frank Kermode ...
    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 book which brings his highly concentrated insights to bear on some of the most unyielding philosophical ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Shakespeare's Language

    by Frank Kermode ...
    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 all written in the first decade of the seventeenth century. They are often in language that is ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Romantic Image

    by Frank Kermode ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    For the past four decades Frank Kermode, critic and writer, has steadily established himself as one of the most brilliant minds of his generation. Author and editor of over forty books, his prodigious output includes some of the best literary criticism to be published. Questioning the public's harsh perception of 'the artist', Kermode at the same time gently pokes fun at artists' own, often ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Essays on Fiction 1971-82 (Routledge Revivals)

    by Sir Frank Kermode ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    In this book, which was first published in 1983, Frank Kermode looks in particular at the revived Russian Formalism, a highly original body of literary theory that flourished in the years immediately following the Revolution, and at the work of Roman Jakobson, one of its most distinguished exponents. He discusses its modern ‘structuralist’ descendants, recalling the importance of Roland Barthes ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne

    Renaissance Essays

    by Frank Kermode ...
    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 of Shakespeare; Survival fo the Classic; Shakespeare's Learning; The Mature Comedies; The Final Plays. ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Romantic Image

    by Frank Kermode ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    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 identifies what has become one of the defining characteristics of the Romantic tradition - the artist in ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Age of Shakespeare

    by Frank Kermode ...
    Narrated by Paul Hecht ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 39 min

    Britain's most esteemed scholar of 16th and 17th century literature, Frank Kermode is also a noted author and professor. In this Modern Library Chronicle, he uses the context of the Elizabethan Era to link each of Shakespeare's plays to their probable years of creation. By portraying the bard's England in terms of its society, economy, and arts, Kermode provides an invaluable guide to ... Read more

    $26.10 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Forms of Attention

    Botticelli and Hamlet

    by Frank Kermode ...
    Sir Frank Kermode, the British scholar, instructor, 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 essay on Botticelli traces the artist's sudden popularity in the nineteenth century for reasons that have more to do with poetry than painting. In the second essay, Kermode reads Hamlet ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Age of Shakespeare

    by Frank Kermode ...
    Series Book 15 - Modern Library Chronicles
    In The Age of Shakespeare, Frank Kermode uses the history and culture of the Elizabethan era to enlighten us about William Shakespeare and his poetry and plays. Opening with the big picture of the religious and dynastic events that defined England in the age of the Tudors, Kermode takes the reader on a tour of Shakespeare’s England, vividly portraying London’s society, its early capitalism, its ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Sense of an Ending

    Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue

    by Frank Kermode ...
    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 book which brings his highly concentrated insights to bear on some of the most unyielding philosophical ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • The Literary Guide to the Bible

    Edited by Robert Alter, Frank Kermode ...
    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 Bible as a whole, providing an enticing reintroduction to a work that has shaped our language and ... Read more

    $45.09 CAD

  • Continuities (Routledge Revivals)

    by Sir Frank Kermode ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Continuities, first published in 1968, is a collection of reviews by Frank Kermode that appeared from 1962 to 1967. Kermode discusses a variety of novelists, poets, and critics, including T. S. Eliot, Northrop Frye, Wallace Stevens, Edmund Wilson, and Wallace Stevens. History and politics are two important aspects that are discussed in regards to these writers. This book is ideal for students of ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD