The Genesis of Secrecy by Frank Kermode
Drawing on enigmatic passages in the four Gospels of the New Testament, Frank Kermode interrogates the fraught relationship between proclaimed meaning and concealed mystery in literature sacred and profane.-
The Origin of Others
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The Unanswered Question
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Working Space
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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
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Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
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The Romantic Generation
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Six Drawing Lessons
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Space, Time and Architecture
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Lessons of the Masters
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The Shape of Content
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The Witness of Poetry
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This Craft of Verse
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To Save and to Destroy
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The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
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Sincerity and Authenticity
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Other Traditions
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Writing and Being
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The Secular Scripture
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Concerto Conversations
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Children of the Mire
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Remembering the Future
Of all his books, [this is] the one that sheds the fullest light on his critical ideals and philosophy, and was also the most ambitious and controversial… Kermode’s insight was that interpretation is always a way of telling a new storyThe comparison of secular and sacred interpretation of narrative was shocking to many… The importance of The Genesis of Secrecy is that it expresses Kermode’s profound distrust of any system of reading that is coercive. -- Charles Rosen * New York Review of Books *
The Genesis of Secrecy is important partly because of its method and partly because of its subject matter. The texts Kermode uses to illustrate ‘the interpretation 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. * Washington Post Book World *
The thesis is well wrought, the scholarship varied and well-distributed, and the examples clear and deft. * Kirkus Reviews *
The Genesis of Secrecy is important partly because of its method and partly because of its subject matter. The texts Kermode uses to illustrate ‘the interpretation 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. * Washington Post Book World *
The thesis is well wrought, the scholarship varied and well-distributed, and the examples clear and deft. * Kirkus Reviews *
Frank Kermode (1919–2010) was a British literary critic and the author or editor of more than fifty books, including The Sense of an Ending, a defining work of fiction theory. A regular contributor to London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books, Kermode was knighted in 1991. He was King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at University of Cambridge.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674345355 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674345355 |
| Title | The Genesis of Secrecy |
| Author | Frank Kermode |
| Series | The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 1980-10-15 |
| Number of pages | 196 |
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