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The sense of an ending studies in the theory of fiction : with a new epilogue

Frank Kermode contributes a new epilogue to his collection of lectures on the relationship of fiction to age-old concepts of apocalyptic chaos and crisis.

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  • "Long perspective"@en
  • "Studies in the theory of fiction"@en
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  • "Long perspectives"

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  • "This significant exploration of the relationship of fiction to age-old conception 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, showing how men have persistently imposed their "fictions" upon the face of eternity and how these have reflected the apocalyptic spirit. -- back cover"
  • "Lectures delivered as the Mary Flexner Lectures, Bryn Mawr College, fall 1965, under the title: The long perspectives."
  • "Frank Kermode is one of our most distinguished and beloved 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 Burroughs, 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."
  • "Frank Kermode contributes a new epilogue to his collection of lectures on the relationship of fiction to age-old concepts of apocalyptic chaos and crisis."@en
  • "Relates the theory of literary fiction to a more general theory, using fictions of apocalypse as a model, and discusses such authors as Sartre, Beckett, and Murdoch."@en

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  • "Lectures"
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  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"
  • "Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme)"

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  • "Sense of an ending studies in the theory of fiction"
  • "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"
  • "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"@en
  • "The sense of an ending : studies in the theory of fiction : with a new epilogue"
  • "The sense of an ending"@en
  • "The sende of an ending : studies in the theory of fiction"
  • "The Sense of an ending : studies in the theory of fiction"
  • "The sense of an ending; studies in the theory of fiction"
  • "The sense of an ending; studies in the theory of fiction"@en
  • "The sense of an ending : studies in the theory of fiction"
  • "The sense of an ending : studies in the theory of fiction"@en
  • "The Sense of an ending, studies in the theory of fiction : Frank Kermode"
  • "Il senso della fine : studi sulla teoria del romanzo"@it
  • "Il senso della fine : studi sulla teoria del romanzo"
  • "The sense of an ending studies in the theory of fiction"@en
  • "The sense of an ending studies in the theory of fiction"
  • "The sense of an ending. Studies in the theory of fiction. (Repr.)"
  • "The sense of an ending : studies in the theory of fiction ; with a new epilogue"
  • "Znaczenie końca"@pl
  • "Il senso della fine studi sulla teoria del romanzo"
  • "The Sense of an Ending : studies in the theory of fiction"
  • "The Sense of an ending"
  • "Sense of an ending"@en
  • "Il senso della fine ... studi sulla teoria del romanzo"
  • "Aḥsās bi-al-nihāyah : dirāsāt fī naẓarīyat al-qiṣṣah"
  • "The Sense of an ending. Studies in the theory of fiction. (The Mary Flexner Lectures, 1965.)"@en
  • "The sense of an ending : Studies in the theory of fiction"
  • "El sentido de un final estudios sobre la teoría de la ficción"
  • "Smysl konců : studie k teorii fikce"
  • "El sentido de un final : estudios sobre la teoría de la ficción"
  • "El sentido de un final : estudios sobre la teoría de la ficción"@es
  • "El sentido de un final : Estudios sobre la teoría de la ficción"@it
  • "El sentido de un final : Estudios sobre la teoría de la ficción"@es
  • "El Sentido de un final : estudios sobre la teoría de la ficción"
  • "The Sense of an ending : Studies in the theory of fiction"
  • "The Sense of an Ending Studies in the Theory of Fiction"@en

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