The Sense of an Ending

Name: The Sense of an Ending
Author: Frank Kermode

by Frank Kermode

Kermode's landmark essay on how we make sense of time through narrative beginning, middle, and end

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Frank Kermode

British literary critic whose The Sense of an Ending is the most influential study of narrative endings and the fictions of apocalypse. The Classic examined how literary works maintain their authority across changing interpretive contexts. He was the most graceful and learned English critic of his generation.

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