Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction - Couverture rigide

Kermode, Frank

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195006011 ISBN 13 : 9780195006018

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1967

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

This significant exploration of the relationship of fiction to age-old conceptions of chaos and crisis brings highly concentrated insights to bear upon some of the most unyielding philosophical and aesthetic enigmas. Mr. Kermode ranges through the works of writers from Plato to Sorokin, from Homer to Robbe-Grillet, from St. Augustine to William Burroughs, showing how men have persistently imposed their "fictions" upon the face of eternity and how these have reflected the apocalyptic spirit. Professor Kermode first sketches his theoretical position. He then discusses literature at a rime when new fictive explanations, as used by Spenser and Shakespeare, were being devised to fit a world of uncertain beginning and end. In the last half of the bock he deals perceptively with modem literature-with "traditionalists" such as Yeats, Eliot and Joyce, as well as with contemporary "schismatics," the French "new novelists," and such seminal figures as Jean-Paul Sartre and Samuel Beckett. Whether weighing the differences between modem and earlier modes of apocalyptic thought, considering the degeneration of fiction into myth, or commenting on the vogue for the Absurd, Mr. Kermode is distinctively lucid, persuasive, witty, and prodigal of ideas. The Sense of an Ending originated in the Mary Flexner Lectures, delivered at Bryn Mawr College in 1965.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1967
• ISBN 10: 0195006011
• ISBN 13: 9780195006018
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 187