Continuities (1968)

Continuities, first published in 1968, is a collection of reviews by Frank Kermode that appeared from 1962 to 1967. Kermode discusses a variety of novelists, poets, and critics, including T. S. Eliot, Northrop Frye, Wallace Stevens, Edmund Wilson, and Wallace Stevens. History and politics are two important aspects that are discussed in regards to these writers. This book is ideal for students of English literature. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface The Modern I. Modernisms: (i) Discrimination of Modernisms (ii) Objects, Jokes and Art (iii) Definitions and Variations Types and Times II. Edifying Symbols III. That Time, This Time IV. Time of Your Life V. The Old Amalaki Poets VI. Allusions to Omar VII. Amateur of Grief VIII. A Babylonish Dialect IX. Afterthoughts on Wallace Stevens X. Allen Tate Critics XI. A Modest Tribute to Edmund Wilson: (i) Inside and Painentralia (ii) A note on Memoirs of Hecate County XII. Frye Reconsidered Novelists XIII. D. H. Lawrence and the Apocalyptic Types XIV. Colette XV. Jonah XVI. Hemingway's Last Novel XVII. Samuel Beckett: (i) Waiting for Godeau (ii) Beckett Country XVIII. Zemblances XIX. A Hero in Bad Faith: Sartre and the Anti-Novel XX. The Later Golding XXI. J. D. Salinger: (i) One Hand Clapping (ii) The Glass Menagerie XXII. Muriel Spark: (i) To The Girls of Slender Means (ii) The Novel as Jerusalem: Muriel Spark's Mandelbaum Gate XXIII. Bernard Malamud XXIV. Bellow's Herzog XXV. Rammel Epilogue XXVI. Dante Continuities, first published in 1968, is a collection of reviews by Frank Kermode that appeared from 1962 to 1967. Kermode discusses a variety of novelists, poets, and critics, including T.S. Eliot, Northrop Frye, Wallace Stevens, Edmund Wilson, and Wallace Stevens. History and politics are two important aspects that are discussed in regards to these writers. This book is ideal for students of English literature. ..