{"product_id":"history-and-value","title":"History and Value","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrank Kermode returns to the literature of his youth to ask why we appear to have forgotten how urgent and powerful it seemed in a time of economic crisis and imminent world war. The general questions suggested by the title are answered first by a study of bourgeois left wing literature in the 1930s - including a case study of a forgotten novel of the period (Stephen Haggard's Nya, OPB, 1988) - and then by a consideration of the problem of value in work belonging to a period earlier than one's own. The last chapter concentrates on the most recent attempt to make these issues manageable - namely, postmodernism, which rejects all notions of wholeness, and speaks of a catastrophic break with the past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Frank Kermode","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43575242326077,"sku":"9780198122241","price":96.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780198122241.jpg?v=1788560849","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/history-and-value","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}