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  History and Value (Clarendon Law Lectures) (Paperback) By (author) Frank Kermode

  

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  Short Description for History and ValueFrank 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. He also looks at postmodernism as a rejection of wholeness, and a catastrophic break with the past.
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  • Publisher: Clarendon Press
  • Published: 20 July 1989
  • Format: Paperback 160 pages
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  • Categories: Linguistics | Literary Theory | Literary Studies: General | Literary Studies: From C 1900 - | Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
  • ISBN 13: 9780198122241 ISBN 10: 0198122241

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• 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.