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Pleasing myself : from Beowulf to Philip Roth
Kermode, Frank, 1919-20102001
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Main title:
Pleasing myself : from Beowulf to Philip Roth / Frank Kermode.
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Imprint:
London : Penguin, 2001
Collation:
viii, 277 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.Also issued online.
Linking notes:
Online version: Kermode, Frank, 1919- Pleasing myself. London : Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 2001
Contents:
The Modern Beowulf -- World-Famous Irishman -- Eliot's Missing Lectures -- Marianne Moore -- Empson the Poet -- Empson as Critic -- Henry Reed -- Roy Fuller -- Ern Malley -- On a New Way of Doing History -- Shakespeare at Work -- Romantic Revisions -- English Gnostics -- Bertrand Russell -- A. J. Ayer -- Moral Literacy -- The Bible as It Was -- The Sexuality of Christ -- The Other Yeats -- Howard Hodgkin -- Sylvester on Modern Art -- The Meaning of Money: Frozen Desire -- Darwin's Worms -- The Search for a Perfect Language -- The Sea, the Sea -- A Sea and Its Meanings -- Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Golding's Last Novel -- Philip Roth.
ISBN:
07139951819780713995183
Dewey class:
820.9
Language:
English
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BRN:
11780