Frank 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 study, offering their own interpretative strategies.
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Part 1 Essays in criticism: "Romantic Image" revisited, John Stokes
the sense of a beginning, Anthony Nuttall
secrets and surfaces, Bernard Harrison
"Secular Surrogates" - Frank Kermode and the idea of the critic, Patrick Parrinder
the history of styles as a style of history, George Hunter
the man on the dump - a response, Frank Kermode. Part 2 Essays in interpretation: the location of "Utopia" - narrative devices in a renaissance fiction, Dominic Baker-Smith
"why should he call her whore?" - defamation and Desdemona's case, Lisa Jardine
Sherlock Holmes and the adventure of the dancing men and women, Alastair Fowler
the pater of Joyce and Eliot, Richard Poirier
of "of" - the romance of a preposition, John Hollander.