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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810102803321

Autore

Kermode Frank <1919-2010.>

Titolo

The sense of an ending [[electronic resource] ] : studies in the theory of fiction : with a new epilogue / / Frank Kermode

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2000

ISBN

0-19-772606-2

0-19-983953-0

1-280-53098-7

0-19-803115-7

1-4294-0391-8

Edizione

[[New ed.].]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Disciplina

801

808.3

Soggetti

Literature - Philosophy

Phenomenology and literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Lectures delivered as the Mary Flexner Lectures, Bryn Mawr College, fall 1965, under the title: The long perspectives.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-205).

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; I: The End; II: Fictions; III: World Without End or Beginning; IV: The Modern Apocalypse; V: Literary Fiction and Reality; VI: Solitary Confinement; EPILOGUE: The Sense of an Ending, 1999; NOTES

Sommario/riassunto

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.