Pleasure and Change: The Aesthetics of Canon

by Frank Kermode and Sir Frank Kermode

Book Overview

The question of the canon has been the subject of debate in academic circles for over fifteen years. Pleasure and Change contains two lectures on this important subject by the distinguished literary critic Sir Frank Kermode. In essays that were originally delivered as Tanner Lectures at Berkeley in November of 2001, Kermode reinterprets the question of canon formation in light of two related and central notions: pleasure and change. He asks how aesthetic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195171373
• ISBN13: 9780195171372
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.1" x 5.5"