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- Harvard University Press
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- 1979
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- The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
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- English
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Frank 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 offers here an inquiry--elegant in conception and style--into the art of interpretation. His subject quite simply is meanings; how they are revealed and how they are concealed. Drawing on the venerable traition of biblical interpretation, Mr. Kermode examines some enigmatic passages and episodes in the gospels. From his reading come ideas about what makes interpretation possible--and often impossible. He considers ways in which narratives aquire opacity, and he asks whether there are methods of distinguishing all possible meaning from a central meaning which gives the story its structure. He raises questions concerning the interpretation of single texts in relation to their context in a writer's work and a tradition; considers the special interpretative problems of historical narration; and tries to relate the activities of the interpreter to interpretation more broadly conceived as a means of living in the world. While discussing the gospels, Mr. Kermode touches upon such literary works as Kafka's parables, Joyce's Ulysses, Henry James's novels, and Pynchon's Crying of Lot 49. By showing the relationships between religious interpretation and literary criticism, he has enhanced both fields.
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Harvard University Press
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0674345258
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9780674345256
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Publication Name
Genesis of Secrecy : on the Interpretation of Narrative
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
General, Rhetoric, Hermeneutics
Publication Year
1979
Series
The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, Philosophy
Number of Pages
196 Pages
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Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
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78-023403
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The thesis is well wrought, the scholarship varied and well-distributed, and the examples clear and deft., The Gensis of Secrecy is important partly because of its method and partly because of its subject matter. The texts Kermode uses to illustrate "the interpretaion of narrative" are the most familiar and important in Western civilization: The Gospels, according to Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John. And the method is a disarming and delicate blend of the best work done recently in narrative theory by semiotic and post-structuralist critics, fortified by an impressive but unobtrusive acquaintance with biblical scholarship and hermeneutics.
Table of Content
I. Carnal and Spiritual Senses II. Hoti's Business: Why Are Narratives Obscure? III. The Man in the Macintosh, The Boy in the Shirt IV. Necessities of Upspringing V. What Precisely Are the Facts? VI. The Unfollowable World Notes Index
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1979
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Dewey Decimal
226/.06/3
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18
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