Frank Kermode

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Frank Kermode (1988)

Sir John Frank Kermode (born November 29, 1919 on the Isle of Man , † August 17, 2010 in Cambridge ) was a British literary scholar .

Short biography

Frank Kermode studied at the University of Liverpool . During the Second World War he served in the Royal Navy , mostly stationed in Iceland .

He then pursued an academic career: in 1967 he became "Lord Northcliffe" - Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London and brought contemporary French critical theory to Great Britain. In 1974 he became King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University . In 1982 he resigned and moved to Columbia University . He has been a member of the British Academy since 1973 , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1976, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1999 .

The founding of the London Review of Books goes back to his suggestion. In 1991 he was knighted. He was rather indecent, did not use the "Sir" title in his books and gave his autobiography the book title Not Entitled . He wrote nearly 200 essay contributions for the London Review of Books . A selection of these was published posthumously under the title Bury Place Papers .

Kermode's oeuvre as author and editor includes over 50 book publications; In the German-speaking countries he was also known in the early 1970s as the author and editor of several volumes in the dtv series Modern Theorists , including monographs on Herbert Marcuse , James Joyce , Marshall McLuhan and Wilhelm Reich .

Fonts

  • The sense of an Ending: Studies in the theory of fiction, Oxford University Press 1966, 2000

literature

  • Michael Wood: John Frank Kermode . In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy . tape XV , 2016, p. 327-342 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/aug/18/frank-kermode-dies-aged-90
  2. ^ A b Charles Rosen in New York Review of Books from June 2011: The Revelations of Frank Kermode
personal data
SURNAME Kermode, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kermode, John Frank (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Isle of Man
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 2010
Place of death Cambridge