The middle ground of serious criticism has so far found its
clearest, most wide-ranging advocate in Kermode; and his new
book...is an important one - ecumenical, level acute.--Kirkus
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It is a matter of some moment when a distinguished and
dispassionate critic such asFrank Kermode ... offers what he calls
a 'recuperative' response to contemporary literary criticism
...Through a careful analysis of authors ranging from Matthew,
Mark, Luke, and John to Joseph Conrad and writers of detective
fiction, he demonstrates in this book what can be gained, and what
discarded, from all the fury of contemporary criticism ... Here is
a badly needed voice of reason.
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