9780195136128-0195136128-The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (with a New Epilogue)

The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (with a New Epilogue)

ISBN-13: 9780195136128
ISBN-10: 0195136128
Edition: New
Author: Frank Kermode
Publication date: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 224 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780195136128
ISBN-10: 0195136128
Edition: New
Author: Frank Kermode
Publication date: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 224 pages

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The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (with a New Epilogue) (ISBN-13: 9780195136128 and ISBN-10: 0195136128), written by authors Frank Kermode, was published by Oxford University Press in 2000. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (with a New Epilogue) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $3.28.

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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 and aesthetic enigmas. Examining the works of writers from Plato to William Burrows, Kermode shows how they have persistently imposed their "fictions" upon the face of eternity and how these have reflected the apocalyptic spirit. Kermode then discusses literature at a time when new fictive explanations, as used by Spenser and Shakespeare, were being devised to fit a world of uncertain beginning and end. He goes on to deal perceptively with modern literature with "traditionalists" such as Yeats, Eliot, and Joyce, as well as contemporary "schismatics," the French "new novelists," and such seminal figures as Jean-Paul Sartre and Samuel Beckett. Whether weighing the difference between modern and earlier modes of apocalyptic thought, considering the degeneration of fiction into myth, or commenting on the vogue of the Absurd, Kermode is distinctly lucid, persuasive, witty, and prodigal of ideas.

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