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, K 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.
Historical Fictions
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, K 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.
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M. D. Hudson –
Just go read everything by Hugh Kenner. I read this a few months back, and since I’ve read about four Kenner books now, I can’t keep them straight. They are all good.
J. Alfred –
"...readability is the sum of numerous small felicities." Thus does Kenner justify critiquing the niceties of various translations of Dante. And the scrupulousness he expects in other writers is what we get from him. This collection, which consists of book reviews and literary essays, is almost springy to the touch. Every phrase, it seems, is at high tensile effectiveness. Kenner expects much from the authors he writes about, and he is generous enough to expect a corresponding amount from his rea "...readability is the sum of numerous small felicities." Thus does Kenner justify critiquing the niceties of various translations of Dante. And the scrupulousness he expects in other writers is what we get from him. This collection, which consists of book reviews and literary essays, is almost springy to the touch. Every phrase, it seems, is at high tensile effectiveness. Kenner expects much from the authors he writes about, and he is generous enough to expect a corresponding amount from his reader. An absolutely fascinating prose style, with content to match.
Erik –
An investigation of a dozen and more literary items, pulled apart with wit, insight, and a minimum of reverence.
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