History and Value: The Clarendon Lectures and the Northcliffe Lectures 1987

by Frank Kermode

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Frank Kermode here returns to the literature of his youth to ask why we seem to have forgotten how urgent and powerful this literature was during a time of economic crisis and imminent world war. First examining bourgeois left-wing writing in England in the 1930s and, to a lesser extent, in the United States, Kermode explores the causes of literary neglect and the nature of the bond between a book and its historical context. He goes on to discuss...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0198122241

ISBN13:9780198122241

Release Date:July 1989

Publisher:Clarendon Press

Length:160 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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Criticism & Theory English Literature History & Criticism Humanities Linguistics Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literary Theory Literature Literature & Fiction

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