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" Men in the middest make considerable imaginative investments in coherent patterns which, by the provision of an end, make possible a satisfying consonance with the origins and with the middle. "
The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue - Page 17
by Frank Kermode - 2000 - 224 pages
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The Dramatic Unity of "Huckleberry Finn"

George C. Carrington - Boys in literature - 1976 - 232 pages
...immediate and intense to the point of desperation. Frank Kermode understates the case 'when he says, "Men in the middest make considerable imaginative...possible a satisfying consonance with the origins and the middle."7 Before the arrival of the daily steamboat in Old Times on the Mississippi, "the day was...
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After the New Criticism

Frank Lentricchia - Literary Criticism - 1980 - 406 pages
...fantasized time, mere escape from the truth of chronos. Kairos cannot in itself satisfy the mature mind: "Men in the middest make considerable imaginative...satisfying consonance with the origins and with the middle. . . . But they also, when awake and sane, feel the need to show a marked respect for things as they...
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Singularität: Lektüren zu Botho Strauss

Endre Hárs - 2001 - 230 pages
...middest"58, über die Kermode sagt: „[They] make considerable imaginative Investments in coherent pattems which, by the provision of an end, make possible a...satisfying consonance with the origins and with the middle" (ebd.). Die Po53 Gerd Bergfleth (1992) 253. * Ebd. 270. ^ Vgl. die apokalyptische Stimme im Hssay „Anschwellender...
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Opera: The Art of Dying

Linda Hutcheon, Michael Hutcheon - Music - 2004 - 274 pages
...an Ending, we "make considerable imaginative investments in coherent patterns which, by the :86 Coda provision of an end, make possible a satisfying consonance with the origins and with the middle."4 How do art forms like opera fit in? Well, as Kermode says, we have to project ourselves "past...
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