The Art of Telling: Essays on Fiction

Erscheinungsjahr 1985
ISBN: 978-0-674-04829-4
Verlag: HARVARD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 135 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 290 g

Frank Kermode assesses the revolutionary transformations in literary criticism over the last fifteen years and places them in historical perspective. Examining novels ranging in scope from a 1907 bestseller to the avant-garde works of various periods, he includes such writers as Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Michel Butor, and Thomas Pynchon.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kermode, Frank

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Kermode, Frank
Frank Kermode (1919–2010) was a British literary critic and the author or editor of more than fifty books, including <i>The Sense of an Ending</i>, a defining work of fiction theory. A regular contributor to <i>London Review of Books</i> and the <i>New York Review of Books</i>, Kermode was knighted in 1991. He was King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at University of Cambridge.