Genesis of Secrecy : On the Interpretation of The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674345355
ISBN-13
9780674345355
eBay Product ID (ePID)
345211

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
182 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Genesis of Secrecy : on the Interpretation of Narrative
Publication Year
1980
Subject
Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General, General, Rhetoric, Hermeneutics
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Religion, Philosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines
Author
Frank Kermode
Series
The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
7.3 in

Additional Product Features

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Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
78-023403
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Of all his books, [this is] the one that sheds the fullest light on his critical ideals and philosophy, and was also the most ambitious and controversial... Kermode's insight was that interpretation is always a way of telling a new story. The comparison of secular and sacred interpretation of narrative was shocking to many... The importance of The Genesis of Secrecy is that it expresses Kermode's profound distrust of any system of reading that is coercive., You will best appreciate how good this book is, how rare its combined precision, lucidity and compactness are, if you have already done some penitential reading in biblical commentary or avant-garde hermeneutics. A lot more happens per word in The Genesis of Secrecy than is usual in hermeneutics, or any other kind of writing. It rouses you to play its own game with it, to search out its own secret passages, its hidden plot against us., Of all his books, [this is] the one that sheds the fullest light on his critical ideals and philosophy, and was also the most ambitious and controversial... Kermode 's insight was that interpretation is always a way of telling a new story. The comparison of secular and sacred interpretation of narrative was shocking to many...The importance of The Genesis of Secrecy is that it expresses Kermode's profound distrust of any system of reading that is coercive., The thesis is well wrought, the scholarship varied and well-distributed, and the examples clear and deft., The Gensis of Secrecy is important partly because of its method and partly because of its subject matter. The texts Kermode uses to illustrate "the interpretaion of narrative" are the most familiar and important in Western civilization: The Gospels, according to Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John. And the method is a disarming and delicate blend of the best work done recently in narrative theory by semiotic and post-structuralist critics, fortified by an impressive but unobtrusive acquaintance with biblical scholarship and hermeneutics., Of all his books, [this is] the one that sheds the fullest light on his critical ideals and philosophy, and was also the most ambitious and controversial...Kermode's insight was that interpretation is always a way of telling a new story. The comparison of secular and sacred interpretation of narrative was shocking to many...The importance of The Genesis of Secrecy is that it expresses Kermode's profound distrust of any system of reading that is coercive., Impressive...[Kermode] has begun an important exploration in The Genesis of Secrecy , and if his next book is as absorbing, it will be worth the making., The Genesis of Secrecy is important partly because of its method and partly because of its subject matter. The texts Kermode uses to illustrate 'the interpretation of narrative' are the most familiar and important in Western civilization: The Gospels, according to Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John. And the method is a disarming and delicate blend of the best work done recently in narrative theory by semiotic and post-structuralist critics, fortified by an impressive but unobtrusive acquaintance with biblical scholarship and hermeneutics., Elegant and suggestive...Kermode's own readings here in the Gospels and in selected modern novels are often brilliant...this book should encourage more literary critics to pick up their Bibles.
Dewey Edition
18
Series Volume Number
35
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
226/.06/3
Table Of Content
I. Carnal and Spiritual Senses II. Hoti's Business: Why Are Narratives Obscure? III. The Man in the Macintosh, The Boy in the Shirt IV. Necessities of Upspringing V. What Precisely Are the Facts? VI. The Unfollowable World Notes Index
Synopsis
"Brilliant...this book should encourage more literary critics to pick up their Bibles."--Howard Eiland, Partisan Review The celebrated critic deciphers the cryptic passages and concealed meanings in literature sacred and profane. In a passage from the Gospel of Mark that has spawned more exegetical disputes than perhaps any other, the disciples question Jesus about why he so often speaks in parables. "To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God," he replies, "but for those outside everything is in parables; so that they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand." The ostensible meaning of this passage seems shockingly unchristian: the true sense of Jesus's stories--their secret--is reserved for the elect, for the insiders. Outsiders be damned. In The Genesis of Secrecy , the prolific Frank Kermode draws upon this and other enigmatic passages in the Gospels to interrogate the fraught relationship between proclaimed meaning and concealed mystery, both in the New Testament and in modern secular literature. A resolute outsider to the rules and canons of Biblical exegesis, he asks how it is that textual dislocations or contradictory narrative elements are imbued with the grandeur of secret meaning. Departing from the Bible, he also asks what the art of interpretation looks like in a secular world, when the lines separating heresy from orthodoxy have become increasingly blurred. Moving effortlessly between Scripture, philosophical hermeneutics, narrative theory, and twentieth-century literature from Joyce to Pynchon, Kermode concludes, pessimistically, that esoteric truths of the text are glimpsed but never finally revealed. Divination begets further divination. Secrecy remains "the source of the interpreter's pleasures, but also of his necessary disappointment.", Frank Kermode has long held a distinctive place among modern critics. He brings to the study of literature a fine and fresh critical intelligence that is always richly suggestive, never modish. He offers here an inquiry--elegant in conception and style--into the art of interpretation. His subject quite simply is meanings; how they are revealed and how they are concealed. Drawing on the venerable tradition of biblical interpretation, Mr. Kermode examines some enigmatic passages and episodes in the gospels. From his reading come ideas about what makes interpretation possible--and often impossible. He considers ways in which narratives acquire opacity, and he asks whether there are methods of distinguishing all possible meaning from a central meaning which gives the story its structure. He raises questions concerning the interpretation of single texts in relation to their context in a writer's work and a tradition; considers the special interpretative problems of historical narration; and tries to relate the activities of the interpreter to interpretation more broadly conceived as a means of living in the world. While discussing the gospels, Mr. Kermode touches upon such literary works as Kafka's parables, Joyce's Ulysses , Henry James's novels, and Pynchon's Crying of Lot 49 . By showing the relationships between religious interpretation and literary criticism, he has enhanced both fields., Drawing on enigmatic passages in the four Gospels of the New Testament, Frank Kermode interrogates the fraught relationship between proclaimed meaning and concealed mystery in literature sacred and profane.
LC Classification Number
PN81.K4 1979

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