{"product_id":"9781429931182","title":"Pieces of My Mind: Essays and Criticism 1958-2002","description":"\u003cp\u003eSir Frank Kermode has been writing peerless literary criticism for more than a half-century. \u003ci\u003ePieces of My Mind \u003c\/i\u003eincludes his own choice of his major essays since 1958, beginning with his extraordinary study of \"Poet and Dancer Before Diaghilev\" and ending with a marvelous consideration of Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eOthello\u003c\/i\u003e and Verdi-Boito's \u003ci\u003eOtello\u003c\/i\u003e. Important essays on Hawthorne, on Wallace Stevens, on problems in literary theory and analysis, on Auden, on \"Secrets and Narrative Sequence,\" and three previously unpublished essays (including one on \"Memory\" and one on \"Forgetting\") fill out this rich and rewarding volume. Pieces of My Mind also contains recent considerations of the work of major modern writers--Don DeLillo, Raymond Carver, Tom Paulin, and others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf Kermode's last book,\u003ci\u003e Shakespeare's Language\u003c\/i\u003e, Richard Howard wrote that it was \"a triumph of inauguration and the crowning action of his splendid career of criticism. It is, and will doubtless remain, the first book one should read about Shakespeare's plays, and with those plays.\" \u003ci\u003ePieces of My Mind\u003c\/i\u003e has equal authority and power, and it will be equally praised.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47122584961264,"sku":"9781429931182","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429931182_p0.jpg?v=1769902095","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429931182","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}