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- Book Synopsis
- Frank Kermode returns to the literature of his youth to ask why we appear to have forgotten how urgent and powerful it seemed in a time of economic crisis and imminent world war. The general questions suggested by the title are answered first by a study of bourgeois left wing literature in the 1930s - including a case study of a forgotten novel of the period (Stephen Haggard's Nya, OPB, 1988) - and then by a consideration of the problem of value in work belonging to a period earlier than one's own. The last chapter concentrates on the most recent attempt to make these issues manageable - namely, postmodernism, which rejects all notions of wholeness, and speaks of a catastrophic break with the past.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780198122241
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press, (08 June 1989)
- Number of Pages
- 150
- Weight
- 233 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 139 x 12 mm
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