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Hugh Kenner, 1923-2003.(Notebook)
In 1976 there appeared in bookstores Geodesic Math and How to Use It (University of California Press). The author was Hugh Kenner, whose next book would be Joyce's Voices (1978) and whose previous book had been A Homemade World (1975), a study of "the American Modernist Writers." Hugh Kenner's first book was about Chesterton, his second about Ezra Pound, his third about Wyndham Lewis, his fourth about James Joyce. Willard Goodwin's bibliography lists thirty-two books, 856 articles, and 200 contributions to collections of essays. His last book was a series of lectures, The Elsewhere Community, spoken ex tempore for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, transcribed.
...- Hugh Kenner: the Kenner era.
- Magazine article from: National Review Davenport, Guy December 31, 1985 700+ words
...followed, and then Wyndham Lewis. Then the astoundingly...Barker Fairley, Hugh Kenner.) over thirty...Kosciuszko), while Hugh Kenner is writing a...learned from Hugh Kenner is that a literary...and Joyce--Wyndham Lewis was easily dismissible...
- A STIMULATING WORK FROM HUGH KENNER
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Mark Feeney, Globe Staff January 5, 1987 700+ words
...THE MECHANIC MUSE, by Hugh Kenner. Oxford University...Stravinsky, Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, '82; William Carlos...linkages, that readers of Hugh Kenner have come to expect...characterized and bounded." Hugh Kenner, you might say, does...
- Goodwin, Willard. Hugh Kenner: a Bibliography.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: ANQ Mason, Wyatt January 1, 2003 700+ words
...of reading Montaigne, or more contemporarily, by reading Hugh Kenner, who also seems to know everything. Willard Goodwin seems...Cantos, Eliot's poems, Beckett's novels and plays, Wyndham Lewis's oeuvre, Buckminster Fuller's architecture and engineering...
- Hugh Kenner, R.I.P.(Obituary)(Obituary)
- Magazine article from: National Review December 22, 2003 700+ words
...P.M. Could he prepare an obit on Hugh Kenner in three hours? Impossible! Happily...the headline right across the page: "Hugh Kenner, Commentator on Literary Modernism...His Writing." The lead sentence: "Hugh Kenner, who died at 80 at his home in Athens...
- "This implacable doctrine": Behaviorism in Wyndham Lewis's Snooty Baronet.
- Magazine article from: Twentieth Century Literature Stanfield, Paul Scott June 22, 2001 700+ words
Wyndham Lewis's 1932 novel Snooty Baronet has...mention it. One earlier study, Hugh Kenner's Wyndham Lewis, characterized the novel as likable...another, William Pritchard's Wyndham Lewis, saw it as "the novelist's last...
- The Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis: Monsters of Nature and Design....
- Magazine article from: CLIO Anspaugh, Kelly March 22, 1996 700+ words
...studies of the relationship between James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis have tended toward the biographical and anecdotal...592-98). Among well-known scholars only Hugh Kenner (in Wyndham Lewis, Norfolk: New Directions, 1959) and Fredric...
- Marketing insults: Wyndham Lewis and the Arthur Press.
- Magazine article from: Twentieth Century Literature Perrino, Mark March 22, 1995 700+ words
...most spectacular failure in comparison to its ambitions, is Wyndham Lewis's 1930 satire The Apes of God. The publication and publicity...few consider it among his best work overall; most follow Hugh Kenner's view of it as a dead end, the unreadable extremity of...
- Wyndham Lewis in London.(Report from Europe)(Biography)
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Kramer, Miriam January 1, 2005 700+ words
Wyndham Lewis achieved prominence both as an artist...bone beneath the pulp": Drawings by Wyndham Lewis, is on view at the Courtauld Institute...13. The works are on loan from the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust, and many have not...
Source: HighBeam Research, Hugh Kenner, 1923-2003.(Notebook)