Poetry, Narrative, History (Bucknell Lecture Series in Literary Theory) [Paperback]

Frank Kermode (Author)

Book Description

Series: Bucknell Lecture Series in Literary Theory | Publication Date: July 1992

During the past 50 years the study of literature has given successive prominence to history, formalism and to theory. Throughout his distinguished career, and in such books as "The Sense of an Ending", "The Classic", "The Genesis of Secrecy", "Forms of Attention and History" and "Value", Frank Kermode has always kept these features of literature simultaneously in focus. In this book, he sets out to reestablish contact between literary history and poetic form in readings of Horace, Marvell and Auden. In part an explicit comment on new historicism, this lecture is accompanied by a manifesto for literary study of the Bible informed by historical scholarship, techniques of close reading and by the theory of narrative. This book offers both a view of Frank Kermode's current preoccupations and a sense of their place in his intellectual career.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Blackwell Pub (July 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0631172653
• ISBN-13: 978-0631172659
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,602,225 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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.