The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act

A pioneering attempt to relate the theory of literary fiction to a more general theory of fiction, using fictions of apocalypse as a model. This pioneering exploration of the relationship of fiction to age-old conceptions of chaos and crisis offers many new insights into some of the most unyielding philosophical and aesthetic enigmas. Examining the works of a wide range of writers from Plato to William Burroughs, Kermode demonstrates how writers have persistently imposed their \"fictions\" upon the face of eternity and how these have reflected the apocalyptic spirit.

Frank Kermode and the Invented World@@@The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction

Ways of Worldmaking

The Oxford History of Western Music

A Grammar of Metaphor

Teleology in Postmodern Fiction

Universalism and Cultural Relativism

Romantic Irony in Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Literature

Paper presented at the conference 'Literary Histories and the Development of Identities' sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada involving members of the I.C.L.A. Coordinating Committee at Queen's University, Canada, in the Fall of 2001.

Literary History and National Identity

The pitfalls of translating terminology

Mihály Szegedy-Maszák

Papers

Teleology in Postmodern Fiction

Universalism and Cultural Relativism

Romantic Irony in Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Literature

Literary History and National Identity

The pitfalls of translating terminology