Intelligent Theory
Frank Kermode, 7 October 1982
Figures of Literary Discourse
by Gérard Genette, translated by Alan Sheridan.
Blackwell, 303 pp., £15, August 1982,0 631 13089 6 Show More
by Gérard Genette, translated by Alan Sheridan.
Blackwell, 303 pp., £15, August 1982,
Theories of the Symbol
by Tzvetan Todorov, translated by Catherine Porter.
Blackwell, 302 pp., £15, July 1982,0 631 10511 5 Show More
by Tzvetan Todorov, translated by Catherine Porter.
Blackwell, 302 pp., £15, July 1982,
The Breaking of the Vessels
by Harold Bloom.
Chicago, 107 pp., £7, April 1982,0 226 06043 8 Show More
by Harold Bloom.
Chicago, 107 pp., £7, April 1982,
The Institution of Criticism
by Peter Hohendahl.
Cornell, 287 pp., £14.74, June 1982,0 8014 1325 7 Show More
by Peter Hohendahl.
Cornell, 287 pp., £14.74, June 1982,
Unspeakable Sentences: Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction
by Ann Banfield.
Routledge, 340 pp., £15.95, June 1982,0 7100 0905 4 Show More
by Ann Banfield.
Routledge, 340 pp., £15.95, June 1982,
“... but they should not be thought of as the only forms of intelligent critical activity. Finally, Ann Banfield’s book is an attempt to provide a grammar of narrative on a method deriving from Chomsky rather than from Saussurean structuralism. I suppose we all thought we knew what needed to be known about style indirect libre (erlebte Rede, free ... ”
