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Frank Kermode (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0674048296 | ISBN-13: 978-0674048294 | Publication Date: January 1, 1985

Kermode assesses the revolutionary transformations in literary criticism over the last fifteen years and places them in historical perspective. Examining novels ranging in scope from a 1907 bestseller to the avant-garde works of various periods, he includes such writers as Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Michel Butor, and Thomas Pynchon.

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Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press (January 1, 1985)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0674048296
ISBN-13: 978-0674048294
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
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Sir Frank Kermode has been a prominent figure in the world of literary criticism since the 1960s. He has been King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge and Professor of Poetry at Harvard. He was knighted in 1991.

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