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, 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 p…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8203-1774-8
- EAN: 9780820317748
- Produktnummer: 1406939
- Verlag: Univ Of Georgia Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
- Seitenangabe: 346 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.3 cm x D2.2 cm 485 g
- Gewicht: 485
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