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August 18, 2010ANGELINA JOLIE*THE CULTURE SHOW SPECIAL *FULL PART 1Send by screamingangieAngelina Jolie talks frankly to Mark Kermode about her considerable film career. Together they discuss her impressive back catalogue - from her breakthrough appearance in Hackers, through her Oscar winning turn in Girl, Interrupted and Golden Globe nominated performance in A Mighty Heart, to her current starring role in Clint Eastwood's acclaime [...] Rating:  3 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
August 18, 2010The Wonder Of Frank Kermode By Dinah Birch - TLSPosted by Willian Smith3 Feb 2010 [...] Sir Frank Kermode's career is a wonder. More than forty volumes have appeared since he began to publish in the 1950s, together with a wealth [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down |
August 18, 2010Literary Critic Frank Kermode Dies In England - Yahoo! NewsPosted by Willian SmithLiterary critic Frank Kermode, a British academic who inspired the founding of the London Review of Books, has died. He was 90. [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
August 18, 2010Critic Frank Kermode Dies At 90Send by www.bbc.co.ukAcclaimed British literary critic Sir Frank Kermode has died at the age of 90, the London Review of Books announces. [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down |
August 18, 2010Frank Kermode, Critic For London Review Of Books, Dies At 90 ...Send by Claire NolandLiterary critic Frank Kermode, a British scholar who inspired the founding of the London Review of Books, has died. He was 90. The London Review of Books, for whom he wrote around 200 pieces, announced that he died Tuesday in Cambridge, [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
August 18, 2010Kerascene Art NewsSend by NewsThe eminent British literary critic Sir Frank Kermode has died at the age of ninety, reports the London Review of Books. Kermode inspired the founding of the London Review in 1979, and held professorships at Cambridge University and UCL [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
August 18, 2010MeritocratsSend by www.nybooks.comby Tony Judt I came up to Kings College, Cambridge, in 1966. Ours was aperhaps the transitional generation. We were past the midpoint of the 1960sthe Mods had come and gone and the Beatles were about to record Sgt. Pepper but the Kings into which I was matriculated was still strikingly traditional. Dinner in Hall was formal, begownedand required. Undergraduates took their seats, awaited [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down |
August 18, 2010My Libr@ry: Celebrated Critic Frank Kermode Dies Aged 90Send by Italo's Cultural LifeKermode inspired the founding of the magazine in 1979, after writing an article in the Observer calling for a new literary magazine. Source: The Guardian Bye Bye Frank, I'll never forget your aticles on the LRB Thank You [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
August 18, 2010Prominent Literary Critic Frank Kermode, 90Send by www.artsjournal.comProminent in literary criticism since the 1950s, Kermode held "virtually every endowed chair worth having in the British Isles." He was knighted in 1991, the first literary critic to be so honoured since William Empson. [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down |
August 18, 2010University Of Cambridge Institute Of Continuing Education - World ...Send by [email protected] (Adrian BarlowHere F R Leavis used to lecture; here, these days, the annual Clark Lectures are often delivered: in 2007 for instance Professor Sir Frank Kermode spoke on E M Forster ? as I have just been doing, for the Summer School, in Room 7 on the [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
August 18, 2010Twelebs 21481446973Send by ebertchicagoRT @PD_Smith: RT @LondonReview: Frank Kermode, who wrote for the LRB from its very first issue, died yesterday in Cambridge. http://bit. [...] newer older. Twitter Celebs. actors (40) Alex Albrecht Kirstie Alley [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
August 18, 2010Frank Kermode Dead At 90 - The Second PassSend by John Williamskermode Preeminent literary critic, essayist, and academic Frank Kermode has died at 90. In a thorough obituary for the Guardian, John Mullan writes, ?His fusing of scholarly disinterestedness and live intellectual curiosity was hard [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
August 18, 2010Celebrated Critic Frank Kermode Dies Aged 90 | Books NewsSend by freshcontentengine.comProminent for more than half-a-century, he combined an eminent scholarly career with popular successWidely acclaimed as Britain's foremost literary critic, Sir. [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down |
August 18, 2010July 27 2010 - Bookforum.com / OmnivorePosted by Willian SmithFrom Bookforum, a review of A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E.M. Forster by Wendy Moffat and Concerning E.M. Forster by Frank Kermode (and more at Slate and more at TNR). Volatility, "folk", sexual landscapes: D. Nurkse on [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
August 18, 2010Frank Kermode's 'The Sense Of An Ending' (printable Version)Posted by Willian SmithHe decided, however, that although Kermode delights in exhibiting his brilliance [...] [1] Frank Kermode, The Sense of an Ending, Oxford, paperback edition,1968 (First published [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
August 18, 2010Frank Kermode, 1919-2010 | A Piece Of Monologue: Literature ...Send by Rhys TranterAcclaimed academic scholar and literary critic Frank Kermode has passed away, aged 90. He is perhaps best known for his association with The London Review of Books, contributing more than 200 essays and reviews since the publication was [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down |
August 18, 2010Echt! My Enthusiasm Curbed:Terry Rigelhof E-talks With Gordon ...Posted by Willian Smith[...] sensibilities and those of every poet that draws positive reinforcement for ?creativity? from Eliot's procedure ? ?surrender, then contemplate, then do something about it? as Frank Kermode so succinctly put it in a recent essay. [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
August 18, 2010Fiction Is Dead. Again? [updated] | Jacket Copy | Los Angeles TimesSend by Carolyn KelloggFrank Kermode said it best: "The special fate of the novel [...] is to be always dying [...] " http://bit.ly/b20z06. Hopefully it's pieces like this that will be dying off, once everyone comes to understand they are just written for shock value [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
August 18, 2010Literary Critic Frank Kermode Dies In England - Celebrity NewsSend by Celebrity newsLiterary critic Frank Kermode dies in England. Aug 18. Celebrity News. By 2010-08-18T17:15:44Z. LONDON (AP) -- Literary critic Frank Kermode, a British academic who inspired the founding of the London Review of Books, has died. [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |