Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 216 g
Reihe: Clarendon Lectures
The Clarendon Lectures and the Northcliffe Lectures 1987
Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 216 g
Reihe: Clarendon Lectures
ISBN: 978-0-19-812224-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford
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.
