| Edition |
1st American ed. |
| Description |
xii, 466 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Poet and dancer before Diaghilev (1958) -- Between time and eternity (from The sense of an ending, 1967) -- Solitary confinement (from The sense of an ending) -- The English novel, circa 1907 (1972) -- Hawthorne and the types (from The classic, 1975) -- Wuthering heights as a classic (from The classic) -- The man in the Macintosh (from The genesis of secrecy, 1978) -- Dwelling poetically in Connecticut (Wallace Stevens, 1980) -- Secrets and narrative sequence (1980) -- Botticelli recovered (from Forms of attention, 1984) -- Cornelius and Voltemand (from Forms of attention) -- The plain sense of things (1986) -- Mixed feelings (from History and value, 1988) -- Eros, builder of cities (from History and value) -- Memory (unpublished, 1994) -- Forgetting (unpublished, 1988) -- The Cambridge connection (unpublished, 2000) -- Literary criticism: old and new styles (2001) -- Shakespeare and Boito (unpublished, 2002) -- Shorter notices. Raymond Carver ; James Lees-Milne ; Auden on Shakespeare ; Don de Lillo ; Marin Amis ; Ian McEwan ; Tom Pulin. |
| Summary |
Sir Frank Kermode has been writing peerless literary criticism for more than half a century. Pieces of My Mind includes his own choice of his major essays since 1958, beginning with his extraordinary study "Poet and Dancer Before Diaghilev" and ending with a marvelous consideration of Shakespeare's Othello and the Verdi-Boito Otello. Important essays on Hawthorne, Wallace Stevens, problems in literary theory and analysis, Wuthering Heights, Auden, and "Secrets and Narrative Sequence," as well as four previously unpublished essays (including one on "Memory" and one on "Forgetting"), fill out this rich and rewarding volume. Pieces of My Mind also contains recent considerations of the work of major modern writers -- Don DeLillo, Raymond Carver, Ian McEwan, Tom Paulin, and others. Richard Howard wrote that Kermode's last book, Shakespeare's Language, was "a triumph of inauguration and the crowning action of his splendid career of criticism. It is, and will doubtless remain, the first book one should read about Shakespeare's plays, and with those plays, in order to understand them and whatever has been written concerning them since." Pieces of My Mind has equal authority and power, and it merits equal praise. |
| Subject |
Criticism.
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Criticism. (OCoLC)fst00883735
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Kermode, Frank.
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Literatur.
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Englisch.
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United States.
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Kermode, Frank, 1919-2010. (DE-588)119014440
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Englisch. (DE-588)4014777-0
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Literatur. (DE-588)4035964-5
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United States. (DE-588)4078704-7
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte
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| ISBN |
0809076012 (alk. paper) |
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9780809076017 (alk. paper) |
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