Hugh Kenner (1923–2003)
Autor(a) de The Pound Era
About the Author
Hugh Kenner (1923-2003) was one of America's great literary critics. He wrote on a range of subjects, including Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, and geodesic domes. The following books by Hugh Kenner are available from Dalkey Archive Press: The Counterfeiters, Flaubert, Joyce, mostrar mais and Beckett: The Stoic Comedians and Joyce's Voices. mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por Hugh Kenner
A Starchamber Quiry: A James Joyce Centennial Volume, 1882-1982 (1982) — Editor; Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
Eliot in his time;: Essays on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of The waste land (1973) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
Literary theory and structure: essays in honor of William K. Wimsatt (1973) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
"The Jokes at the Wake" 1 exemplar
"Beaufoy's Masterplaster" 1 exemplar
"The English Teacher Who Wrote Ulysses" 1 exemplar
"Reflections on the Gabler Era" 1 exemplar
"Jim the Comedian" 1 exemplar
"Joyce's Ulysses: Homer and Hamlet" 1 exemplar
"Who's He When He's at Home?" 1 exemplar
England in the late middle ages 1 exemplar
Gnomon 1 exemplar
"The Joycean Present" 1 exemplar
"Taxonomy of an Octopus" 1 exemplar
"Prometheus' Diary" 1 exemplar
"Rebuttal to John Gordon's Rebuttal" 1 exemplar
"The World--Gritty, Particular" 1 exemplar
"Molly's Masterstroke" 1 exemplar
"Berlitz Days" 1 exemplar
The invention of China 1 exemplar
"The Rhetoric of Silence" 1 exemplar
"Signs on a White Field" 1 exemplar
"Shem the Textman" 1 exemplar
"Biography by the Ground Rules" 1 exemplar
"Focus on Pound" 1 exemplar
"The Search for Joyce" 1 exemplar
Pound on Joyce 1 exemplar
"From a Lost World" 1 exemplar
"Homer's Sticks and Stones" 1 exemplar
"Review of Ulysses on the Liffey" 1 exemplar
"Gee!" 1 exemplar
"Creativity and Inequality" 1 exemplar
"Images of James Joyce" 1 exemplar
"Sauce for the Goose" 1 exemplar
"The Impertinence of Being Definitive" 1 exemplar
"The Most Beautiful Book" 1 exemplar
"Type's Cast: Joyce and His Mechanical Muse" 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 917 exemplares
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (1931) — Introdução, algumas edições — 662 exemplares
The Translations of Ezra Pound (1953) — Editor, algumas edições; Introdução, algumas edições — 162 exemplares
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1986) — Contribuidor, algumas edições; algumas edições; algumas edições — 122 exemplares
Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? American Conservative Thought in the Twentieth Century (1970) — Contribuidor — 82 exemplares
The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift [Norton Critical Edition] (1742) — Contribuidor — 80 exemplares
Pound as Wuz: Essays and Lectures on Ezra Pound (1987) — Introdução, algumas edições — 42 exemplares
Published and Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, and Remembrances of American Writers (2002) — Contribuidor — 37 exemplares
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man: A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism) (2003) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, and the Schism in the American Soul (2002) — Contribuidor — 25 exemplares
T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1986) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 18 exemplares
G.K. Chesterton (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) (2006) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 9 exemplares
Faulkner, Modernism, and Film: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1978 (1979) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Agenda : Wyndham Lewis special issue — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Ezra Pound's Cantos: A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism) (2006) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 5 exemplares
A Poem Containing History: Textual Studies in The Cantos (Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism) (1997) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Kenner, Hugh
- Nome legal
- Kenner, William Hugh
- Data de nascimento
- 1923-01-07
- Data de falecimento
- 2003-11-24
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Canada
USA - Local de nascimento
- Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
- Local de falecimento
- Athens, Georgia, USA
- Locais de residência
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Educação
- University of Toronto (BA - English, MA - English)
Yale University (PhD) - Ocupações
- professor
literary critic
columnist
mathematician
computer programmer
biographer (mostrar todos 8)
essayist
editor - Relações
- McLuhan, Marshall (teacher)
Brooks, Cleanth (teacher)
Pound, Ezra (friend)
Beckett, Samuel (friend) - Organizações
- Royal Society of Literature
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Philosophical Society
American Council of Learned Societies
American Academy of Arts and Letters
National Institute of Arts and Letters (mostrar todos 12)
Johns Hopkins University
University of Georgia
Art & Antiques
Byte
National Review
Wired - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies (1949)
Fellow, American Philosophical Society (1956)
Guggenheim fellow, 1957-58, 1964
National Institute of Arts and Letters/American Academy of Arts and Letters prize, 1969
LL.D., University of Notre Dame, 1984
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Kenner wrote books of scholarly criticism on some of the most difficult authors in literature (Joyce, Pound, Eliot); literary history; a book on cartoonist Chuck Jones; geodesic math; and a user's guide to the Heathkit H100/Zenith Z-100 computer. He was also a columnist for Art & Antiques and Byte magazine.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 80
- Also by
- 37
- Membros
- 2,423
- Popularidade
- #10,584
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 15
- ISBN
- 100
- Línguas
- 4
- Marcado como favorito
- 12
Hugh Kenner chronicles these decades in this thick book, weighty with bone and sinew. In the course of it, he makes a convincing case that his title, The Pound Era, is a fitting description of what passed for modern English literature when I went to college. Pound and his friends in pre-war London defined themselves, their movement, and their time as a vortex. It was a brief, transcendent moment. The major work of most of them still lay ahead but was carried out under a cloud of tragedy. The destruction of the Great War took the life of one of their number, Gaudier-Brzeska, and hurtled the survivors on parallel, lonely trajectories.
They (Joyce, Eliot, Williams, and the others) lived in a time when the newly-discovered cave paintings in southern France and the etymological turn in linguistics made them aware of the inheritance of eons. The gift of their intelligence was to make the past as vibrant as the present. Pound was at the forefront, blending modern idiom with Chinese ideograms, Provençal ballads, the Jefferson-Adams correspondence, and Homer. From beginning to end, Homer. And let's not forget the golden-clad goddess.
To read this magisterial book is an education. I learned many things, such as why the anthropologist Frobenius rejected a word in his own language, Zeitgeist, and used instead an ancient Greek work, paideuma, to express what he meant by a shared culture.
The Pound of the wartime radio broadcasts from Italy is neither excused nor trivialized. The reader is left to ponder what led him to such a quixotic mission, but Kenner supplies much of the background. Pound’s fascination with the economic theories of Douglas, for instance, seems understandable, as it becomes ever clearer that the dominant force in the world is avarice.
When I first discovered Pound a half-century ago, I was fascinated by his Imagist poems. I read and re-read them. I tried his Guide to Kulchur but gave up. And I assumed I was too dense even to attempt the Cantos. With Kenner to breathe courage into me, I just ordered them, and I’m impatient to give them a go.… (mais)