With his trenchant, famously entertaining touch, Kenner explores the role of counting in literature (Joyce and St. Augustine shared a preference for the number eleven); the extravagant efforts through the ages to preserve the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" (focusing on Ezra Pound's contributions); and Tom Wolfe's prose through the purple decades (Kenner calls him "the nonchalant master of the neon-piped sentence"). Other writers who fall under Kenner's appraising gaze include Flann O'Brien, H.D., Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Dante, Leslie Fiedler, Wallace Stevens, Saul Bellow, William Carlos Williams, Samuel Beckett, and Vladimir Nabokov.
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With his trenchant, famously entertaining touch, Kenner explores the role of counting in literature (Joyce and St. Augustine shared a preference for the number eleven); the extravagant efforts through the ages to preserve the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" (focusing on Ezra Pound's contributions); and Tom Wolfe's prose through the purple decades (Kenner calls him "the nonchalant master of the neon-piped sentence"). Other writers who fall under Kenner's appraising gaze include Flann O'Brien, H.D., Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Dante, Leslie Fiedler, Wallace Stevens, Saul Bellow, William Carlos Williams, Samuel Beckett, and Vladimir Nabokov.
Imprint | University of Georgia Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | October 1995 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | October 1995 |
Authors | Hugh Kenner |
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 344 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8203-1774-8 |
Barcode | 9780820317748 |
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LSN | 0-8203-1774-8 |