Pleasure and Change
The Aesthetics of Canon
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 pleasure informs what we find valuable, and how this perception changes over time. Kermode also explores the role of chance, observing the connections between canon formation and unintentiona…
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Weitere Autoren: Alter, Robert (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-534682-4
- EAN: 9780195346824
- Produktnummer: 13931469
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 806 KB
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Sir Frank Kermode is Professor Emeritus, University of Cambridge.
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