The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction [Audiobook] download free by Frank Kermode
- Listen audiobook: The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction
- Author: Frank Kermode
- Release date: 2000/10/15
- Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780195136128
- Rating: 8.75 of 10
- Votes: 57
- Review by: Tammara Banda
- Review rating: 8.43 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/5
- Duration: 2H47M11S in 256 kbps (43.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-06
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: AC3, WMA, MP3, WAV, Apple Lossless, MPEG4, FLAC (compression ZIP, RAR, TAR, LZO, ISO, TAR.7Z)
- Total pages original book: 218
- Includes a PDF summary of 18 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 12M48S (3.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 fromPlato 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 beingdevised 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 isdistinctly lucid, persuasive, witty, and prodigal of ideas.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Contemporary Fiction, Literary Studies: General, Literary Theory, Semantics
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 20.13 USD
- Dimensions: 140x212x20mm
- Weight: 299.37g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Oxford, United Kingdom
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