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Continuities by Frank Kermode
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.67Continuities, first published in 1968, is a collection of reviews by Frank Kermode that appeared from 1962 to 1967. Kermode discusses a variety of novelists, poets, and critics, including T. S... -
Romantic Image by Frank Kermode
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £92.37For the past four decades Frank Kermode, critic and writer, has steadily established himself as one of the most brilliant minds of his generation. Author and editor of over forty books, his... -
Shakespeare's Language by Frank Kermode
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The true biography of Shakespeare - and the only one we really need to care about - is in the plays. Sir Frank Kermode, Britain's most distinguished literary critic, has been thinking about them all... -
Shakespeare: King Lear by Frank Kermode
Booksplease Price: £103.11This revised edition of the successful Casebook first published in 1969, has been brought up-to-date with the inclusion of more recent criticism, whilst retaining early comments and critiques... -
Romantic Image by Frank Kermode 9781138143289
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £92.37For the past four decades Frank Kermode, critic and writer, has steadily established himself as one of the most brilliant minds of his generation. Questioning the public's harsh perception of 'the... -
Romantic Image by Frank Kermode 9780415261876
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.69For the past four decades Frank Kermode, critic and writer, has steadily established himself as one of the most brilliant minds of his generation. Questioning the public's harsh perception of 'the... -
The Age of Shakespeare Sir Frank Kermode 9780753819951
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'The greatest literary scholar of his generation' (Independent) explains how the history of the Elizabethan era is the backdrop to William Shakespeare and his plays.Shakespeare made his unique... -
The Oxford Book of Letters by Frank Kermode 9780192804907
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.14Reading other people's letters, like reading private diaries, offers thrilling and unexpected glimpses into their lives, and it is partly the guilty pleasure we take in such literary eavesdropping... -
Not Entitled: A Memoir by Professor Frank Kermode 9780374525927
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374525927Author Professor Frank KermodeFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Farrar, Straus and... -
Shakespeare's Language by Professor Frank Kermode 9780374527747
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £17.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527747Author Professor Frank KermodeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Farrar, Straus and... -
Shakespeare: King Lear by Frank Kermode 9780333533581
Booksplease Price: £33.84This revised edition of the successful Casebook first published in 1969, has been brought up-to-date with the inclusion of more recent criticism, whilst retaining early comments and critiques... -
Forms of Attention: Botticelli and Hamlet by Frank Kermode
Booksplease Price: £16.75Sir Frank Kermode, the British scholar, teacher, and author, was an inspired critic. "Forms of Attention" is based on a series of three lectures he gave on canon formation, or how we choose what art... -
Concerning E.M. Forster by Frank Kermode 9780753823361
Booksplease Price: £15.23A major reassessment of the one of the greatest English novelist of the twentieth century, from celebrated critic Sir Frank Kermode.CONCERNING E.M. FORSTER is a rich, varied and original portrait of... -
Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne: Renaissance Essays by Frank Kermode
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94First published in 1971. This collection of essays discusses some of the central works and areas of literature in the Renaissance period of cultural history. Contents include: Spenser and the... -
Pleasure and Change: The Aesthetics of Canon by Frank Kermode 9780195309355
RRP: £28.49Booksplease Price: £20.70The question of the canon has been the subject of debate in academic circles for over fifteen years. Pleasure and Change contains two lectures on this important subject by the distinguished literary... -
The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction by Frank Kermode
RRP: £17.49Booksplease Price: £13.26Frank 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... -
The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative by Frank Kermode 9780674345355
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £26.24Frank Kermode has long held a distinctive place among modern critics. He brings to the study of literature a fine and fresh critical intelligence that is always richly suggestive, never modish. He... -
Essays on Fiction 1971-82 by Sir Frank Kermode 9781138859050
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37In this book, which was first published in 1983, Frank Kermode looks in particular at the revived Russian Formalism, a highly original body of literary theory that flourished in the years immediately... -
The Classic: Literary Images of Permanence and Change by Frank Kermode 9780674133983
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.46Frank Kermode attempts to determine the criteria for classical literature through an analysis of the social and intellectual importance of great works of the past.About the AuthorSir (John) Frank... -
Puzzles and Epiphanies: Essays and Reviews 1958-1961 by Frank Kermode
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.67This book, first published in 1962, is a collection of twenty-four essays written by Frank Kermode between 1958 and early 1961, and are all concerned with criticism and fiction. Puzzles and... -
The Living Milton: Essays by Various Hands by Sir Frank Kermode
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.35Various aspects of Milton are explored in this collection of essays by scholars whose reputations were, at the time of publication in 1960, perhaps largely based on their writings on more modern... -
The Duchess of Malfi: Seven Masterpieces of Jacobean Drama by Frank Kermode 9780679642435
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £16.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679642435Author Frank KermodeFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher... -
History and Value: The Clarendon Lectures and the Northcliffe Lectures 1987 by Frank Kermode 9780198122241
Booksplease Price: £40.50Frank 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... -
Addressing Frank Kermode: Essays in Criticism and Interpretation by Margaret Tudeau-Clayton 9780333531372
Booksplease Price: £96.51Frank Kermode's work has always been important to students of English literature. In these essays, leading scholars critically assess Kermode's texts and question his representation of literary... -
The Living Milton (Routledge Revivals): Essays by Various Hands Sir Frank Kermode 9781138840614
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Various aspects of Milton are explored in this collection of essays by scholars whose reputations were, at the time of publication in 1960, perhaps largely based on their writings on more modern... -
Life.After.Theory: Jacques Derrida, Frank Kermode, Toril Moi, Christopher Norris by Michael Payne 9780826465658
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £53.12Is there life after theory? If the death of the Author has now been followed by the death of the Theorist, what's left? Indeed, who's left? To explore such riddles Life. After.Theory brings together... -
Life.After.Theory: Jacques Derrida, Frank Kermode, Toril Moi and Christopher Norris by Michael Payne 9780826473172
Booksplease Price: £26.85Is there life after theory? If the death of the Author has now been followed by the death of the Theorist, what's left? Indeed, who's left? To explore such riddles, this volume brings together... -
Scripture, Metaphysics, and Poetry: Austin Farrer's The Glass of Vision With Critical Commentary Robert MacSwain 9781138279407
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £50.37This book offers a critical edition of arguably the greatest work of English theology in the 20th century: Austin Farrer's Bampton Lectures published as The Glass of Vision in 1948. Farrer was an... -
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Illuminations contains the most celebrated work of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and influential thinkers of the 20th Century: 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction',... -
Local Hero: The Making of a Scottish Classic by Jonathan Melville
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.99'It's not a high concept movie, there's actually no story there really. It's what happens in between the story that's important' - Bill Forsyth The story of an American businessman sent to buy the... -
Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Jonathan Bate's Soul of the Age brings us closer than ever to understanding what being Shakespeare was actually like.How did plague turn Shakespeare from a jobbing hack into a courtly poet? How did... -
Extravagant Narratives: Closure and Dynamics in the Epistolary Form by Elizabeth Jane MacArthur 9780691605029
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55Challenging the view of epistolary narrative as a faulty precursor to the nineteenth-century realist novel, Elizabeth MacArthur argues that the openness and flexibility that characterize... -
Adventures in the Deeps of the Mind: The Cuchulain Cycle of W.B. Yeats by Barton R. Friedman 9780691656427
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £72.30Barton Freidman demonstrates that, as a cycle, the Cuchulain plays form a paradigm of Yeats's dramatic career. They trace his progress, the author contends, toward finding a genuine dramatic mode,... -
Adventures in the Deeps of the Mind: The Cuchulain Cycle of W.B. Yeats by Barton R. Friedman 9780691616537
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.53Barton Freidman demonstrates that, as a cycle, the Cuchulain plays form a paradigm of Yeats's dramatic career. They trace his progress, the author contends, toward finding a genuine dramatic mode,... -
Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile by David M. Bethea 9780691605586
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £40.37Joseph Brodsky, one of the most prominent contemporary American poets, is also among the finest living poets in the Russian language. Nevertheless, his poetry and the crucial bilingual dimension of... -
On Elizabeth Bishop by Colm Toibin 9780691154114
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.91In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her... -
On Elizabeth Bishop Colm Tóibín 9780691271040
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.26A compelling portrait of a beloved poet from one of today's most acclaimed novelistsIn this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most... -
The Life of the Drama by Eric Bentley 9781557831101
Booksplease Price: £18.50Eric Bentley's radical new look at the grammar of theatre...is a work of exceptional virtue... The book justifies its title by being precisely about the ways in which life manifests itself in the... -
What the Victorians Made of Romanticism: Material Artifacts, Cultural Practices, and Reception History by Tom Mole 9780691175362
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.14This insightful and elegantly written book examines how the popular media of the Victorian era sustained and transformed the reputations of Romantic writers. Tom Mole provides a new reception history... -
Ezra Pound and the Symbolist Inheritance by Scott Hamilton 9780691600468
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.25In this revisionary study of Ezra Pound's poetics, Scott Hamilton exposes the extent of the modernist poet's debt to the French romantic and symbolist traditions. Whereas previous critics have...