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Description    FRANK KERMODE (1919-2010) was a British literary critic best known for his work THE SENSE OF AN ENDING (published in 1967; revised 2000) and for his extensive book-reviewing and editing. He was knighted in 1991. A few months before his death in 2010, the scholar James Shapiro described him as "the best living reader of Shakespeare anywhere, hands down." The following books are in PDF format: * FORMS OF ATTENTION: Botticelli and Hamlet (University of Chicago Press, 1985) * PLEASURE AND CHANGE: The Aesthetics of Canon (Oxford University Press, 2004) * THE ROMANTIC IMAGE (1957; Routledge, 2004). With a new epilogue by the author. * THE SENSE OF AN ENDING: Studies in the Theory of Fiction, 2nd edition (1967; Oxford University Press, 2000). Sharing WidgetAll Comments |
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Why, he asks, when the alarm clock by our bed goes ‘tick tick’, does the brain insist on hearing ‘tick tock’? The reason, he suggests, is our addiction to beginnings and (even more addictively) endings: ‘Tick is a humble genesis, tock a feeble apocalypse.’