The Art of Telling: Essays on Fiction

By Frank Kermode

Book Overview

Frank Kermode assesses the revolutionary transformations in literary criticism over the last fifteen years and places them in historical perspective. Examining novels ranging in scope from a 1907 bestseller to the avant-garde works of various periods, he includes such writers as Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Michel Butor, and Thomas Pynchon.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674048296
• ISBN13: 9780674048294
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.2"