The Genesis of Secrecy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Genesis of Secrecy write by Frank Kermode. This book was released on 1979. The Genesis of Secrecy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An examination of some enigmatic passages and episodes in the gospels.
An Appetite for Poetry
An Appetite for Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Appetite for Poetry write by Frank Kermode. This book was released on 2013-05-23. An Appetite for Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Frank Kermode is one of the pre-eminent practitioners of the art of criticism in the English speaking world. It has been his distinction to make a virtue – as all the best critics have done – of the necessarily occasional nature of his profession. That virtue is evident on every page of this collection of essays. In one group of essays he asks the reader to share his pleasure in a number of major writers – Milton, T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens. In another, he discusses ideas about problems in biblical criticism and their implications for the study of narrative in particular and the interpretation of secular literary texts in general. In them he gives clear accounts of questions relating to interpretation and the debate about canons. A key essay looks at the career of William Empson, a career lived between literature and criticism, between the pleasure of the text and the delight in conceptual issues which is characteristic of so much of the contemporary taste for theory. It is Empson's career, perhaps, which is the foundation for the polemical prologue to the book, where Kermode challenges those who doubt the possibility (and the necessity) of the cross-over between literature and criticism, and who argue that criticism is mere appreciation, mere connoisseurship, that theory has displaced criticism and has left literature in the dust, that theory is the avant-garde of critical thought. This piece defines the author's position in the debate about literature and value.
The Uses of Error
The Uses of Error - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Uses of Error write by Frank Kermode. This book was released on 1991. The Uses of Error available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a record of Kermode's "error," his wandering through literature past and present. He notes that "in thirty-odd years I have written several hundred reviews, an example I would strongly urge the young not to follow." From these Kermode has selected the pieces he treasures most; they provide an example that will be difficult to follow.
Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy
Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy write by Vijay Mishra. This book was released on 2019-05-16. Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy is the first book to draw extensively from material in the Salman Rushdie archive at Emory University to uncover the makings of the British-Indian writer's modernist poetics. Simultaneously connecting Rushdie with radical non-Western humanism and an essentially English-European sensibility, and therefore questions about world literature, this book argues that a true understanding of the writer lies in uncovering his 'genesis of secrecy' through a close reading of his archive. Topics and materials explored include unpublished novels, plays and screenplays; the earlier versions and drafts of Midnight's Children and its adaptations; understanding Islam and The Satanic Verses; the influence of cinema; and Rushdie's turn to earlier archives as the secret codes of modernism. Through careful examination of Rushdie's archive, Vijay Mishra demonstrates how Rushdie combines a radically new form of English with a familiarity with the generic registers of Indian, Arabic and Persian literary forms. Together, these present a contradictory orientalism that defines Rushdie's own humanism within the parameters of world literature.
The Classic
The Classic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Classic write by Frank Kermode. This book was released on 1983. The Classic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Frank Kermode attempts to determine the criteria for classical literature through an analysis of the social and intellectual importance of great works of the past.
