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  • The Way We Live Now

    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 - ... En savoir plus

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  • Forms of Attention

    Botticelli and Hamlet

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Shakespeare's Language

    par Frank Kermode ...
    The true biography of Shakespeare - and the only one we really need to care about - is in the plays. Sir Frank Kermode, Britain's most distinguished literary critic, has been thinking about them all his life. This book is a distillation of that lifetime's thinking. The great English tragedies were all written in the first decade of the seventeenth century. They are often in language that is ... En savoir plus

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  • The Sense of an Ending

    Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue

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    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 ... En savoir plus

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  • The Sense of an Ending

    Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • He Knew He Was Right

    Louis Trevelyan unjustly accuses his wife Emily of a liaison with a friend of her father's. As his suspicion deepens into madness, Trollope gives a psychological study in which Louis's obsessive delirium is comparable to the tormented figure of Othello, tragically flawed by self-deception. ... En savoir plus

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  • The Duchess of Malfi

    Seven Masterpieces of Jacobean Drama

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    Edited and with an Introduction by Frank KermodeA Woman Killed with Kindness by Thomas HeywoodVolpone by Ben JonsonThe Revenger’s Tragedy by Cyril TourneurThe Maid’s Tragedy by John Fletcher and Francis BeaumontA Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Thomas MiddletonThe Duchess of Malfi by John WebsterThe Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William RowleyThe lyrical, bloodthirsty tragedies and witty urban ... En savoir plus

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  • Pleasing Myself

    From Beowulf to Philip Roth

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    Sir Frank Kermode is acknowledged as one of the greatest critics of our time, renowned for the wit humanity and good sense of his writing. Pleasing Myself brings together the very best of his shorter pieces, on topics ranging from Donne and Yeats to modern art and money. ... En savoir plus

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  • Romantic Image

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    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 ... En savoir plus

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  • An Appetite for Poetry

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    Frank Kermode is one of the pre-eminent practitioners of the art of criticism in the English speaking world. It has been his distinction to make a virtue – as all the best critics have done – of the necessarily occasional nature of his profession. That virtue is evident on every page of this collection of essays.In one group of essays he asks the reader to share his pleasure in a number of major ... En savoir plus

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  • Il senso della fine

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    «Esiste ancora un bisogno di parlare in termini umani dell'importanza della vita: un bisogno, che ci accompagna durante l'esistenza, di appartenersi, di potersi riferire a un inizio e a una fine.» Qual è il rapporto tra romanzo e Apocalisse? In apparenza nessuno. Ma non è quello che pensa Frank Kermode, uno dei più importanti critici letterari del Novecento. La sua tesi, in questo libro ritenuto ... En savoir plus

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  • The Literary Guide to the Bible

    Modifié par 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 ... En savoir plus

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