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There are those who argue that the history of criticism is a history of error; but if we stay within the tradition, rather than seek to overthrow it, we shall have to say rather that it is a history of accommodations, of attempts to earn the privilege of access to that kingdom of the larger existence which is in our time the secular surrogate of another Kingdom whose horizon is no longer within our range.
Frank Kermode, ‘Prologue’ to Essays on Fiction: 1971–82
(Kermode 1983a: 31–2)
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Parrinder, P. (1991). ‘Secular Surrogates’: Frank Kermode and the Idea of the Critic. In: Tudeau-Clayton, M., Warner, M. (eds) Addressing Frank Kermode. Warwick Studies in the European Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11753-6_4
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