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Historical Fictions

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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 ; the extravagant efforts through the ages to preserve the Iliad and the Odyssey ; and Tom Wolfe's prose through the purple decades . 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.

Language: English

Pages: 344

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 1990

ISBN 13: 9780820317748

Historical Fictions

4.1/5 ( ratings)

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 ; the extravagant efforts through the ages to preserve the Iliad and the Odyssey ; and Tom Wolfe's prose through the purple decades . 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.

Language: English

Pages: 344

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 1990

ISBN 13: 9780820317748

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