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Frank Kermode contributes a new epilogue to his collection of lectures on the relationship of fiction to age-old concepts of apocalyptic chaos and crisis.

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"An impressively learned, eloquent, and brilliant defense of a non-schismatic view of human time."--Leo Bersani, The New York Times "A packed, original, highly stimulating book,"--David Lodge "An impressively learned, eloquent, and brilliant defense of a non-schismatic view of human time."--Leo Bersani, The New York Times "A packed, original, highly stimulating book,"--David Lodge

Table of Contents
1. The End ; 2. Fictions ; 3. World without end or beginning ; 4. The modern apocalypse ; 5. Literary fiction and reality ; 6. Solitary confinement ; Epilogue: The Sense of an Ending, 1999 ; Notes

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      Publisher: Oxford University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 5/4/2000 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780195136128, 978-0195136128
      ISBN10: 0195136128
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Frank Kermode contributes a new epilogue to his collection of lectures on the relationship of fiction to age-old concepts of apocalyptic chaos and crisis.

      Trade Review
      "An impressively learned, eloquent, and brilliant defense of a non-schismatic view of human time."--Leo Bersani, The New York Times "A packed, original, highly stimulating book,"--David Lodge "An impressively learned, eloquent, and brilliant defense of a non-schismatic view of human time."--Leo Bersani, The New York Times "A packed, original, highly stimulating book,"--David Lodge

      Table of Contents
      1. The End ; 2. Fictions ; 3. World without end or beginning ; 4. The modern apocalypse ; 5. Literary fiction and reality ; 6. Solitary confinement ; Epilogue: The Sense of an Ending, 1999 ; Notes

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