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      • The sense of an ending : studies in the theory of fiction Author: Frank Kermode Summary: An attempt to relate the theory of literary fiction to a more general theory of fiction, using fictions of apocalypse as a model.
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  2. The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction is the most famous work of the literary scholar Frank Kermode. It was first published in 1967 by Oxford University Press. The book originated in the Mary Flexner Lectures, given at Bryn Mawr College in 1965 under the title 'The Long Perspectives'.

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    • 1967
  3. The Sense of an Ending takes its name from a 1967 book of literary criticism by Frank Kermode, which studies how fiction imposes cohesive structures and coherent narratives onto what might otherwise seem like chaos, especially in uncertain times of history. Barnes’s novel is similarly concerned with how all people, not just writers, construct ...

  4. Examining the works of writers from Plato to William Burrows, Kermode shows how they have persistently imposed their "fictions" upon the face of eternity and how these have reflected the apocalyptic spirit.

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  5. Apr 6, 2000 · Abstract. Frank Kermode is one of our most distinguished and beloved 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 ...

  6. THE SENSE OF AN ENDING plan from the Creation to the Last Days: it is perpetually open to history, to reinterpretation—one remembers how central the story was to Kierkegaard—in terms of changed human ways of speaking about the single form of the world. The Odyssey is not, in this way, open. Virgil and

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  7. THE SENSE OF AN ENDING. STUDIES IN THE THEORY OF FICTION. by Frank Kermode ‧RELEASE DATE: March 29, 1967. bookshelf. shop now. amazon. This is the most important book on aesthetics and culture to appear since Rosenberg's The Tradition of the New and Sypher's Loss of the Self.

  8. Oxford University Press, 1967 - Fiction - 187 pages. Frank Kermode is one of our most distinguished critics of English literature. Here, he contributes a new epilogue to his collection of classic...