|
Showing 1 - 24 of
24 matches in All Departments
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.
The "homemade world" Hugh Kenner describes exists alongside the
world of Pound, Joyce, and Eliot. While they were laying the
international foundations of literary modernism, another modernism
far more specifically American was being born in the work of
William Faulkner, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams,
Marianne Moore, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Kenner deals in turn with each of the six, with the American
conditions that shaped them, and with the peculiarly homemade
strengths that led to their achievement. "A Homemade World" is a
book to stimulate thought, argument, and an altogether fresh
consideration of twentieth-century writing.
'Joyce's Voices' is both a helpful guide through Joyce's
complexities and a brief treatise on the concept of objectivity:
the ideas that the world can be perceived as a series of reports to
our senses.
This volume contains all of the extant letters written to each
other by the renowned Joyce scholars, Hugh Kenner and Adaline
Glasheen, between 1953 and 1984. In these frank letters, we are
offered the opportunity to visit the creative process. The letters
have been carefully annotated so that we can follow how their ideas
are absorbed into their published writings. They do not hesitate to
try out ideas on each another and they do not hesitate to express
uncomfortable opinions. Their contributions to the common cause
spark off each other. This book will be a compulsive read for Joyce
scholars, for scholars of literary modernism, and for those
interested in the history of literary criticism.
With characteristic flair, Kenner explores the ways Joyce teaches
us to read his novel as Joyce taught himself to write it: moving
from the simple to the complex, from the familiar to the strange
and new, from the norms of the nineteenth-century novel to the open
forms of modernism.
It was 1976--twenty-five years after R. Buckminster Fuller
introduced geodesic domes when literary critic Hugh Kenner
published this fully-illustrated practical manual for their
construction. Now, some twenty-five years later, "Geodesic Math and
How to Use It "again presents a systematic method of design and
provides a step-by-step method for producing mathematical
specifications for orthodox geodesic domes, as well as for a
variety of elliptical, super-elliptical, and other nonspherical
contours.
Out of print since 1990, "Geodesic Math and How To Use It "is
California's most requested backlist title. This edition is fully
illustrated with complete original appendices.
With his customary wit and erudition, one of America's most
celebrated and distinguished critics examines the response of
literary Modernism to environmental changes caused by
technology.
Focusing on Eliot, Pound, Joyce, and Beckett, Hugh Kenner explores
how inventions as various as the linotype, the typewriter, the
subway, and the computer altered the way these writers viewed and
depicted the world. Whether discussing Joyce's acute awareness of
the nuances of typesetting or Beckett's experiments with a
"proto-computer-language," Kenner consistently approaches the works
of these authors from fresh angles and offers a wealth of anecdotes
and asides that will delight both the general reader and the
literary specialist.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1964.
"'All humans, by their nature, ' said Aristotle, 'desire to know.'
A special and unparalleled way to know is to simply go where you've
never been before. And the key to this quest for knowledge is
'elsewhere.'"
So begins The Elsewhere Community by acclaimed literary critic
Hugh Kenner, author of The Pound Era, and himself a living archive
of modernism in twentieth-century literature. Kenner traces the
quest for elsewhere as it manifests itself in various modes of
"travel," from the eighteenth century English tradition of a Grand
Tour to the continent, to literary meetings-of-the-mind (Milton's
visit to Galileo, T.S. Eliot's to Ezra Pound, Kenner's own visit to
Beckett), to today's planet-wide Internet journeys, free from all
physical limitations. As he chronicles this Elsewhere Community
built of people exploring the unknown, Kenner illuminates how this
passion has infused literature, from Homer and Dante to Dickens and
Joyce. Kenner frames this unique exploration with a witty
rumination on the life of the literary expatriate, fondly recalling
his friendships with Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, Wyndham Lewis,
Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, and other
twentieth-century literary luminaries. Thus a fascinating
intellectual autobiography emerges of Hugh Kenner as critic and
chronicler, a man whose own life and work uniquely position him to
assess the importance of travel in literary life.
Written with the confidence, grace, and verve that have always
characterized Kenner's work, this delightful book is for anyone
seeking to understand the irrepressible human urge to travel and to
know.
In "Historical Fictions" Hugh Kenner applies his extraordinarily
nimble mind and unrivaled style to the alchemy of speech turning
into language, language becoming art, and art finally settling down
as culture. A variety of literary topics are addressed in
forty-three lively, often humorous, and wonderfully informative
essays.
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.
"Hugh Kenner's "The Pound Era" could as well be known as the Kenner
era, for there is no critic who has more firmly established his
claim to valuable literary property than has Kenner to the first
three decades of the 20th century in England. Author of pervious
studies of Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis and Pound (to name a
few), Kenner bestrides modern literature if not like a colossus
then at least a presence of formidable proportions. A new book by
him is certainly an event....A demanding, enticing book that
glitters at the same time it antagonizes....""The Pound Era"
presents us with an idiosyncratic but sharply etched skeletal view
of our immediate literary heritage."--"The New York Times"
"It is notoriously difficult to recognize degrees of pre-eminence
among one's near-contemporaries. We talk now of the age of Donne, a
label that would have seemed bizarre to Ben Johnson. Will "The
Pound Era" seem an appropriate designation, 50 or 100 years hence,
for the epoch we think of as 'modern'? Mr. Kenner's brilliantly
written book establishes an excellent case for supposing the answer
to be 'Yes.'"--"The Economist"
"Mr. Kenner's study...is not so much a book as a library, or
better, a new kind of book in which biography, history, and the
analysis of literature are so harmoniously articulated that every
page has a narrative sense...."The Pound Era" is a book to be read
and reread and studied. For the student of modern letters it is a
treasure, for the general reader it is one of the most interesting
books he will ever pick up in a lifetime of reading."--"National
Review"
This pioneering study did much to rehabilitate Erza Pound's
reputation after a long period of critical hostility and neglect.
Published in 1951, it was the first comprehensive examination of
the Cantos and other major works that would strongly influence the
course of contemporary poetry. Hugh Kenner, perhaps the preeminent
authority on Pound, has written a retrospective preface for the
reissue of his famous book, long out of print. James Laughlin, in
his foreword, writes that The Poetry of Erza Pound turned the tide
not only for its subject but also for his company, New Directions,
which first published it in America.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1964.
Creator of the mono-maniacal Wile E. Coyote and his elusive prey,
the Road Runner, Chuck Jones has won three Academy Awards and been
responsible for many classics of animation featuring Bugs Bunny,
Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Elmer Fudd. Who better to do Chuck Jones
than Hugh Kenner, master wordsmith and technophile, a man
especially qualified to illuminate the form of literacy that Jones
so wonderfully executes in the art of character animation? A
Flurry of Drawings reveals in cartoon-like sequences the
irrepressible humor and profound reflection that have shaped Chuck
Jones's work. Unlike Walt Disney, Jones and his fellow animators at
Warner Brothers were not interested in cartoons that mimicked
reality. They pursued instead the reality of the imagination, the
Toon world where believability is more important than realism and
movement is the ultimate aesthetic arbiter. Kenner offers both a
fascinating explanation of cartoon culture and a new understanding
of art's relationship to technology, criticism, freedom, and
imagination. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived
program, which commemorates University of California Press's
mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them
voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893,
Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1994.
Creator of the mono-maniacal Wile E. Coyote and his elusive prey,
the Road Runner, Chuck Jones has won three Academy Awards and been
responsible for many classics of animation featuring Bugs Bunny,
Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Elmer Fudd. Who better to do Chuck Jones
than Hugh Kenner, master wordsmith and technophile, a man
especially qualified to illuminate the form of literacy that Jones
so wonderfully executes in the art of character animation? A Flurry
of Drawings reveals in cartoon-like sequences the irrepressible
humor and profound reflection that have shaped Chuck Jones's work.
Unlike Walt Disney, Jones and his fellow animators at Warner
Brothers were not interested in cartoons that mimicked reality.
They pursued instead the reality of the imagination, the Toon world
where believability is more important than realism and movement is
the ultimate aesthetic arbiter. Kenner offers both a fascinating
explanation of cartoon culture and a new understanding of art's
relationship to technology, criticism, freedom, and imagination.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1994.
|
You may like...
Jewels Of Romance
Andre Rieu, Johann Strauss Orchestra
CD
R215
R136
Discovery Miles 1 360
Northern Lights
Charles Bruffy, Phoenix Chorale, …
CD
R548
Discovery Miles 5 480
|