Gnomon - Essays on Contemporary Literature (Paperback)

The gnomon is the part of a sundial that casts its shadow, and Gnomon: Essays on Contemporary Literature represents, in its author's words, a report on ten years watching of shadows. Collecting the earliest short essays and reviews by a man who was arguably the greatest English-language critic-scholar of the twentieth century, Gnomon not only provides valuable, entertaining, and often scabrous insights into the workings of literature, as well as the books of such modern giants as William Carlos Williams, Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, and Ezra Pound, but is itself a cross-section of the the development of Kenner's own body of work, which inits beauty, irreverence, and disregard for convention proves him as much an artist as the men and women he spent his life championing.

General

Imprint:	Dalkey Archive Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	American Literature Series
Release date:	May 2023
First published:	February 2012
Authors:	Hugh Kenner
Dimensions:	250 x 150 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	302
ISBN-13:	978-1-56478-430-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Promotions
LSN:	1-56478-430-4
Barcode:	9781564784308

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