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The Genesis of Secrecy
Frank Kermode
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Description for The Genesis of Secrecy
Paperback. Series: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. Num Pages: 196 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 10. Weight in Grams: 276.
Frank Kermode has long held a distinctive place among modern critics. He brings to the study of literature a fine and fresh critical intelligence that is always richly suggestive, never modish. He offers here an inquiry—elegant in conception and style—into the art of interpretation. His subject quite simply is meanings; how they are revealed and how they are concealed.
Drawing on the venerable tradition of biblical interpretation, Mr. Kermode examines some enigmatic passages and episodes in the gospels. From his reading come ideas about what makes interpretation possible—and often impossible. He considers ways in which narratives acquire opacity, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
Series
The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674345355
SKU
V9780674345355
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About Frank Kermode
Sir (John) Frank Kermode was Julian Clarence Levi Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, at Columbia University and a Fellow of King’s College, University of Cambridge. He was instrumental in the 1979 founding of the London Review of Books and was knighted in 1991 for his service to literature.
Reviews for The Genesis of Secrecy
Of all his books, [this is] the one that sheds the fullest light on his critical ideals and philosophy, and was also the most ambitious and controversial… Kermode’s insight was that interpretation is always a way of telling a new story. The comparison of secular and sacred interpretation of narrative was shocking to many… The importance of The Genesis of ... Read more