{"product_id":"the-sense-of-an-ending-studies-in-the-theory-of-fiction-with-a-new-epilogue-paperback","title":"The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrank Kermode\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrank Kermode is one of our most distinguished 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\u003cbr\u003ethe book which brings his highly concentrated insights to bear on some of the most unyielding philosophical and aesthetic enigmas. 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\u003cbr\u003ehave reflected the apocalyptic spirit. Kermode then discusses literature at a time when new fictive explanations, as used by Spenser and Shakespeare, were being devised to fit a world of uncertain beginning and end. He goes on to deal perceptively with modern literature with \"traditionalists\" such\u003cbr\u003eas Yeats, Eliot, and Joyce, as well as contemporary \"schismatics,\" the French \"new novelists,\" and such seminal figures as Jean-Paul Sartre and Samuel Beckett. Whether weighing the difference between modern and earlier modes of apocalyptic thought, considering the degeneration of fiction into myth, \u003cbr\u003eor commenting on the vogue of the Absurd, Kermode is distinctly lucid, persuasive, witty, and prodigal of ideas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrank Kermode\u003c\/strong\u003e was formerly King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, Cambridge University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 8.52 x 5.52 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 29, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45256223850598,"sku":"9780195136128","price":53.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/TFRkSTdGcldFSXowNTd6SUZQRU5UZz09.webp?v=1773705031","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-sense-of-an-ending-studies-in-the-theory-of-fiction-with-a-new-epilogue-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}