Frank Kermode

His preface to the first edition acknowledges the influence of I. A. Richards —with whom, however, he also says he disagrees in principle. Richards had been his undergraduate supervisor, and tradition (only slightly exaggerated, says...

Publication evoked a chorus of praise Frank Kermode , finding this a little miracle of a book, was not untypical. More recently and less sympathetically, Margaret Moan Rowe saw the social satire and spiritual...

Frank Kermode , reviewing this novel in The Listener, commented that the great pleasures offered by this writer are contingent upon our being willing to work harder than usual. Again Graham Greene complimented...

Reviews in the USA were mostly bad, though Anita Brookner published there a detailed, admiring analysis.Gabriel Josipovici , reviewing this novel in the Times Literary Supplement, called MSthe best English novelist...

Spark was horrified when Derek Stanford , her former friend and collaborator, published a book about her in September 1963: Muriel Spark, a Biographical and Critical Study, which she later called packed with factual...

This book won the Orange Prize for Fiction (after ZS had twice appeared on its shortlist) and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.Frank Kermode , writing in the London Review of Books...

Though she had already published a novel, CBR said it was this book that first launched her on the literary scene, since it drew critical attention including a top article in the Sunday Times by...

Mark Rose calls this collection a difficult, and somewhat miscellaneous book, but finds that CBR is at her best when analyzing and revising writers' conceptions.Frank Kermode notes that its expository mode [is]...

CBR held Guest Chairs at SUNY at Buffalo (1974), New York University (1976), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1979), and Brandeis University (1980). Her own summary of her career, however, was that she tried...

In 2007 Frank Kermode used this novel as a test case for examining the flattening out process which necessarily accompanies the adaptation of a novel as play or film. This short and relatively slight novel...

RW was one of the judges (along with Stephen Spender , Frank Kermode , David Farrer , and W. L. Webb ) for the award of the first-ever Booker Prize.

Wuthering Heights has continued to compel critical attention. In The Classic, 1975, Frank Kermode devoted extended analysis to the cryptic language patterns in the novel's opening, because, he wrote, it was vital to re-interpret...

WE published The Structure of Complex Words, a book of criticism which Frank Kermode calls his magnum opus.