Product Description: Hugh Kenner examina el lenguaje y los silencios de las novelas de Flaubert, Joyce y Beckett, cada uno considerado un ""comediante estoico"" en su propio contexto. La comedia estoica se convierte en el centro de un fenómeno literario que, para Kenner, sirve tanto para el análisis de las novelas de estos autores como para estudiar su relación con los lectores...read more

Product Description: 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 development of Kenner s own body of work, which in its beauty, irreverence, and disregard for convention proves him as much an artist as the men and women he spent his life championing...read more

Product Description: "An original and entertaining study of, chiefly, Ulysses . . . This is a most stimulating book." Anthony Burgess

Originally published: Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968.

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.

Examines how inventions as various as the linotype, the typewriter, the subway, and the computer altered the way the world was viewed and depicted, in readings of works by writers including Pound, Joyce, Beckett, and Eliot (view table of contents)

Product Description: "'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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Traces the development of the French Symbolist movement and its influence on W.B. Yeats, Paul Valery, T.S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein

Analyzes the works of the contemporary Irish-born playwright, novelist, and critic to help the reader formulate literary interpretations and conclusions

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: In this collection of 50 essays, Hugh Kenner writes on a range of subjects, from Einstein's time dilation principle and Mandelbrow's fractals to Georgia O'Keeffe and the "poetry" of Richard Nixon.

Product Description: Book by Hartman, Charles O., Kenner, Hugh

Describes the works of a director of Warner Brothers animated cartoons of the 1940s and 1950s, and explains how his sense of humor shaped the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and other familiar characters

Using real world examples and a tutorial disk, a computer columnist and a literary critic team up to explain how Grammatik can help clarify the user's prose.

Product Description: Desmond Egan has published ten books of poetry, one of prose, and an acclaimed translation of the Medea. Collections of his work have been published in translation in French, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian.

A study of the main figurea on the literary scene in twentieth-century England, including Hardy, James, Bloomsbury, Shaw, and Empson

An acclaimed critic examines the work and accomplishment of the writers of the Irish Literary Revival--Yeats, Joyce, Synge, Beckett, O'Casey, O'Brien, and others--and the causes, circumstances, and ramifications of that Revival

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: One of the most important books ever written on established Hugh Kenner as a significant modernist critic. This pathbreaking analysis presents Uylsses as a "bit of anti-matter that Joyce sent out to eat the world." The author assumes that Joyce wasn't a man with a box of mysteries, but a writer with a subject : his native European metropolis of Dublin...read more

Product Description: 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...read more