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  • Forms of Attention

    Botticelli and Hamlet

    by Frank Kermode ...
    Sir Frank Kermode, the British scholar, instructor, and author, was an inspired critic. Forms of Attention is based on a series of three lectures he gave on canon formation, or how we choose what art to value. The essay on Botticelli traces the artist's sudden popularity in the nineteenth century for reasons that have more to do with poetry than painting. In the second essay, Kermode reads Hamlet ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pieces of My Mind

    Essays and Criticism 1958–2002

    by Frank Kermode ...
    A career-spanning collection of thought-provoking analyses from the renowned literary critic.Sir Frank Kermode has been writing peerless literary criticism for more than a half-century. Pieces of My Mind includes his own choice of his major essays since 1958, beginning with his extraordinary study of "Poet and Dancer Before Diaghilev" and ending with a marvelous consideration of Shakespeare's ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Romantic Image

    by Frank Kermode ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    For the past four decades Frank Kermode, critic and writer, has steadily established himself as one of the most brilliant minds of his generation. Author and editor of over forty books, his prodigious output includes some of the best literary criticism to be published. Questioning the public's harsh perception of 'the artist', Kermode at the same time gently pokes fun at artists' own, often ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Concerning E. M. Forster

    by Frank Kermode ...
    A major reassessment of the great English novelistThis impressive new book by the celebrated British critic Frank Kermode examines hitherto neglected aspects of the novelist E. M. Forster's life and work. Kermode is interested to see how it was that this apparently shy, reclusive man should have claimed and kept such a central position in the English writing of his time, even though for decades he ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Sense of an Ending

    Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue

    by Frank Kermode ...
    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 ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Sense of an Ending

    Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue

    by Frank Kermode ...
    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 ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Romantic Image

    by Frank Kermode ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    For the past four decades Frank Kermode, critic and writer, has steadily established himself as one of the most brilliant minds of his generation. Questioning the public's harsh perception of 'the artist', Kermode at the same time gently pokes fun at artists' own, often inflated, self-image. He identifies what has become one of the defining characteristics of the Romantic tradition - the artist in ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Essays on Fiction 1971-82 (Routledge Revivals)

    by Sir Frank Kermode ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    In this book, which was first published in 1983, Frank Kermode looks in particular at the revived Russian Formalism, a highly original body of literary theory that flourished in the years immediately following the Revolution, and at the work of Roman Jakobson, one of its most distinguished exponents. He discusses its modern ‘structuralist’ descendants, recalling the importance of Roland Barthes ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Way We Live Now

    by Anthony Trollope, Frank Kermode ...
    Augustus Melmotte is a fraudulent foreign financier who preys on dissolute nobility - using charm to tempt the weak into making foolish investments in his dubious schemes. Persuaded to put money into a notional plot to run a railroad from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, the capricious gambler Felix Carbury soon becomes one of his victims. But as Melmotte climbs higher in society, his web of deceit - ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Audiobook

    The Age of Shakespeare

    by Frank Kermode ...
    Narrated by Paul Hecht ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 39 min

    Britain's most esteemed scholar of 16th and 17th century literature, Frank Kermode is also a noted author and professor. In this Modern Library Chronicle, he uses the context of the Elizabethan Era to link each of Shakespeare's plays to their probable years of creation. By portraying the bard's England in terms of its society, economy, and arts, Kermode provides an invaluable guide to ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Age of Shakespeare

    by Frank Kermode ...
    Series Book 15 - Modern Library Chronicles
    In The Age of Shakespeare, Frank Kermode uses the history and culture of the Elizabethan era to enlighten us about William Shakespeare and his poetry and plays. Opening with the big picture of the religious and dynastic events that defined England in the age of the Tudors, Kermode takes the reader on a tour of Shakespeare’s England, vividly portraying London’s society, its early capitalism, its ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Literary Guide to the Bible

    Edited by Robert Alter, Frank Kermode ...
    Rediscover the incomparable literary richness and strength of a book that all of us live with an many of us live by. An international team of renowned scholars, assembled by two leading literary critics, offers a book-by-book guide through the Old and New Testaments as well as general essays on the Bible as a whole, providing an enticing reintroduction to a work that has shaped our language and ... Read more

    $33.69 USD