Frank Kermode

Biographic Data

ID255488
NAMEFrank Kermode
GIVEN NAMESFrank
FAMILY NAMEKermode
SIGNATUREKERMODE F
AFFILIATIONSColumbia University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS27
TOTAL CITATIONS26
WORKS AS AUTHOR27
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1962
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX2

  • A Reply to Paul Feyerabend and Richard Rorty

    Frank Kermode, Jeffrey M PerlARTICLECommon Knowledge2019

    This retitled excerpt from Frank Kermode’s introduction to the symposium “Beyond Post-: A Revaluation of the Revaluation of All Values” (Common Knowledge 1:3 [Winter 1992]: 10–12) is republished here in a special issue of representative pieces from the journal’s first twenty-five years. Kermode had called for papers in the journal’s inaugural issue (1:1 [Spring 1992]: 5–6) on “the question of value” and was to a degree disappointed with the resul…

  • ‘Opinion’ in Troilus and Cressida

    Open AccessFrank KermodeARTICLECritical Quarterly2012

  • C. B. Cox

    Open AccessFrank KermodeARTICLECritical Quarterly2008

  • Pleasure and Change

    Frank Kermode, Robert AlterBOOKPleasure and Change2006

  • Change

    Frank KermodeCHAPTERPleasure and Change2006

    This chapter presents Frank Kermode's second lecture which focuses on change and chance and their roles in canon formation. Like the "great statute of the general Du Puy" in Wallace Steven's poem, Kermode argues that "texts too must change, or rather, we must choose to grant them the blessing of change, for that alone will save them from their only other possible fate, namely to be rubbish in the end." Kermode understands this process of change f…

  • Pleasure and Change

    Frank Kermode, Robert AlterBOOKPleasure and Change2006

  • Palaces of memory

    Open AccessFrank KermodeARTICLEIndex on Censorship2001

  • Essays on Conrad

    Open AccessIan Watts, Ian Watt et al.BOOKEssays on Conrad2000

    Ian Watt (1917–99) has long been acknowledged as one of the finest of post-War literary critics. The Rise of the Novel (1957) is still the landmark account of the way in which realist fiction developed in the eighteenth century and Watt's work on Conrad has been enormously influential. Conrad in the Nineteenth Century (1979) was to have been followed by a volume addressing Conrad's later work, but the material for this long-awaited second volume …

  • The Sense of an Ending

    Frank KermodeBOOKThe sense of an ending2000

    Frank Kermode is one of our most distinguished and beloved critics of English literature. Here, he contributes a new epilogue to his collection of classic lectures on the relationship of fiction to age-old concepts of apocalyptic chaos and crisis. Prompted by the approach of the millennium, he revisits the book which brings his highly concentrated insights to bear on some of the most unyielding philosophical and aesthetic enigmas. Examining the w…

  • Attracting, taking, holding

    Open AccessFrank KermodeARTICLECritical Quarterly1999

  • Enquete

    Open AccessMelanie Hawthorne, Frank Kermode et al.ARTICLESouth Central Review1995

    Melanie Hawthorne, Frank Kermode, Jane Gallop, Thomas Pavel, Toril Moi, Charlotte M. Wright, Faridoun Farrokh, Jenene Allison, Barbara Johnson, Jane Tompkins, Tatyana Tolstaya, Elisabeth Rich, U. C. Knoepflmacher, Alice Friman, Marshall Bruce Gentry, Katherine E. Kelly, William J. Scheick, Hubert Heinen, Carl Fowler, Jean-Pierre Cauvin, David B. Merrell, Lee K. Abbott, Janet P. Sholty, Elaine Marks, Claudia A. Limbert, Clay Reynolds, Denis Hollie…

  • History and Value

    Open AccessJames Gindin, Frank KermodeARTICLESouth Central Review1991

  • The Literary Guide to the Bible

    William S Anderson, Robert Alter et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1989

  • The Hebrew Bible in Literary Criticism

    Adele Berlin, Alex Preminger et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1989

  • The Literary Guide to the Bible

    Virgil Nemoianu, Robert Alter et al.ARTICLEModern Language Notes1988

  • The Calabrian Abbot

    Frank KermodeARTICLEThe Journal of Religion1986

  • The Apocalypse in English Renaissance Thought and Literature

    Open AccessFrank KermodeARTICLERenaissance Quarterly1985

    C. A. Patrides and Joseph Wittreich, ed. The Apocalypse in English Renaissance Thought and Literature. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984. ix + 452 pp. £37.50. - Joseph Wittreich. “Image of that Horror“: History, Prophecy, and Apocalypse in King Lear. San Marino: The Huntington Library, 1984. xiii + 185 pp. $22. - Volume 38 Issue 3

  • The Genesis of Secrecy

    Open AccessFrank KermodeARTICLEReligious Studies Review1982

  • Secrets and Narrative Sequence

    Frank KermodeARTICLECritical Inquiry1980Cited by: 21

  • A Reply to Joseph Frank

    Frank KermodeARTICLECritical Inquiry1978

  • A Reply to Denis Donoghue

    Frank KermodeARTICLECritical Inquiry1975

  • A Modern Way with the Classic

    Frank KermodeARTICLENew Literary History1974

    H ORACE PROVIDED a rule of thumb, sensible so far as it goes, when he said: est vetus atque probus, centum qui perfecit annos; he did not know the word classic in the literary sense, but Pope was right to put it into his imitation of Horace's line: Who lasts a century can have no flaw,/I hold that Wit a Classic, good in law. 1 What they leave out is any account of the temporal agencies of survival, the most important of which is a more or less co…

  • Novels

    Frank KermodeARTICLECritical Inquiry1974Cited by: 3References: 1

  • Noam Chomsky

    Dell Hymes, John Lyons et al.ARTICLELanguage1972Cited by: 2

  • The Structures of Fiction

    Frank KermodeARTICLEModern Language Notes1969