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Guy Davenport

Questioning Minds: The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner

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The most intellectually exhilarating work published in 2018 . . . A lasting treasure. —Michael Dirda, The Washington PostHugh Kenner (1923-2003) and Guy Davenport (1927-2005) first met in September 1953 when each gave a paper on Ezra Pound at Columbia University. They met again in the fall of 1957, and their correspondence begins with Kenner's letter of March 7, 1958. In the next forty-four years, they exchanged over one thousand letters. An extraordinary document of a literary friendship that lasted half a century, the letters represent one of the great and—with the dawn of the age of text and Twitter—one of the last major epistolary exchang… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Kenner, Hugh / Burns, Edward M. (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-61902-181-5
  • EAN: 9781619021815
  • Produktnummer: 22832260
  • Verlag: Counterpoint Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 2016 S.
  • Masse: H24.4 cm x B17.6 cm x D12.9 cm 3'460 g
  • Gewicht: 3460

Über den Autor


Guy Davenport was a writer, illustrator, teacher, and scholar. He is best known for his modernist-style short stories, but his range of works is wide, spanning poetry, translation, and criticism. He was a professor of English for three decades, having taught at Haverford College and the University of Kentucky.Hugh Kenner (1923–2003), literary critic and distinguished Joyce scholar, held academic posts at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Johns Hopkins University; and the University of Georgia. He was the author of twenty books, including The Pound Era, Joyce's Voices, and A Homemade World.Edward M. Burns is Professor Emeritus at William Paterson University of New Jersey. He has edited Staying on Alone: Letters of Alice B. Toklas, The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder, A Tour of the Darkling Plain: The Finnegans Wake Letters of Thornton Wilder and Adaline Glasheen, and A Passion for Joyce: The Letters of Hugh Kenner and Adaline Glasheen. He served as an editor of Text and its successor journal Textual Cultures.

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