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Sir John Frank Kermode, FBA (29 November 1919 – 17 August 2010) was a British literary critic best known for his 1967 work The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction and for his extensive book-reviewing and editing.
Sep 7, 2010 · A tribute to the writer and critic Frank Kermode, who died in 2010, by his colleague and friend Elisabeth Sifton. She recounts his life, work, and achievements, from his childhood on the Isle of Man to his academic career in England and America.
Aug 19, 2010 · Frank Kermode, who rose from humble origins to become one of England’s most respected and influential critics, died Tuesday at his home in Cambridge, England. He was 90.
The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction is the most famous work of the literary scholar Frank Kermode. It was first published in 1967 by Oxford University Press. The book originated in the Mary Flexner Lectures, given at Bryn Mawr College in 1965 under the title 'The Long Perspectives'. Summary
Aug 26, 2010 · Kermode—who served in the Royal Navy during World War II—sees the prisoner in his cell as the archetypal storyteller: “Down on the bedrock,” he quotes Burney as writing, “life becomes a ...
Aug 26, 2010 · Sir Frank Kermode was born on the Isle of Man on 29 November 1919 and educated at Douglas High School, where his precise social status, as he once recalled, was marked by the fact that he "did not wear clogs and belonged to the leather-wearing classes".
Dec 5, 2009 · I n 1995, Sir Frank Kermode published a memoir, Not Entitled, which ended with an evocation of his "commonplace house" in Cambridge. He would, he wrote, belong there, "or be as close to...
