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History and Value: The Clarendon Lectures and the Northcliffe Lectures 1987
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kermode, Frank, 1919-2010, author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 150 p.)
- Other Title:
- History and value
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon, 1988.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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. He also looks at postmodernism as a rejection of wholeness, and a catastrophic break with the past.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780191671388 (ebook) :
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