Hugh Kenner ( Eng. William Hugh Kenner , January 7, 1923 , Peterborough , Ontario - November 24, 2003 , Athens , GA ) is a Canadian and American literary historian , literary critic , and teacher , one of the most influential modernism specialists.
| Hugh Kenner | |
|---|---|
| English William Hugh Kenner | |
| Date of Birth | January 7, 1923 |
| Place of Birth | Peterborough Ontario Canada |
| Date of death | November 24, 2003 (80 years old) |
| A place of death | Athens , Georgia , USA |
| Citizenship | Canada, USA |
| Occupation | historian of literature , literary critic , teacher |
| Father | |
| Awards and prizes | Guggenheim Scholarship [d] ( 1950 ) |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Teaching
- 3 Proceedings
- 4 Publications
- 5 letters
- 6 Publications in Russian
- 7 Literature
- 8 References
Biography
He graduated from the University of Toronto , where one of his teachers was Marshall McLuhan (he wrote a preface to Kenner's first book, The Chesterton Paradox, 1947 ). In 1948 , McLuhan introduced Kenner to Ezra Pound , whom they visited at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington and with whom Kenner made friends. Kenner's second book was about Pound, he dedicated it to McLuhan. In 1950 , Kenner received his Ph.D. from Yale , defending his dissertation on D. Joyce with Clint Brooks .
Teaching
Kenner taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara ( 1951 - 1973 ), at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore ( 1973 - 1990 ), and at Georgia State University Athens ( 1990 - 1999 ).
Proceedings
Kenner's main and most famous works are devoted to Joyce , Eliot , Pound , Becket .
His interests also included architecture and archeology, ancient literature and modern poetry, animation and geodesy.
Publications
- Paradox in Chesterton ( 1947 )
- The Poetry of Ezra Pound ( 1951 )
- Wyndham Lewis: A Critical Guidebook ( 1954 )
- Dublin's Joyce ( 1956 , reprint. 1987 )
- Gnomon: Essays in Contemporary Literature ( 1959 )
- The Art of Poetry (1959)
- The Invisible Poet: TS Eliot (1959, reprinted 1969 )
- Samuel Beckett: A Critical Study ( 1961 , reprinted 1968 )
- The Stoic Comedians: Flaubert, Joyce, and Beckett ( 1962 , with illustrations by Guy Davenport )
- The Counterfeiters: An Historical Comedy ( 1968 , reprinted 1985 , with illustrations by Guy Davenport)
- The Pound Era ( 1971 )
- Bucky: A Guided Tour of Buckminster Fuller ( 1973 )
- A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett ( 1973 )
- A Homemade World: The American Modernist Writers ( 1975 )
- Geodesic Math and How to Use It ( 1976 )
- Joyce's voices ( 1978 , reprint 2007 )
- Ulysses ( 1980 , reprint. 1987 )
- A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers ( 1983 )
- The Mechanic Muse ( 1987 )
- A Sinking Island: The Modern English Writers ( 1988 )
- Mazes: Essays ( 1989 )
- Historical Fictions: Essays ( 1995 )
- Chuck Jones: A Flurry of Drawing s ( 1994 )
- The Elsewhere Community ( 2000 )
Letters
- A passion for Joyce: the letters of Hugh Kenner & Adaline Glasheen. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2008
Publications in Russian
Literature
- Davenport G. Hugh Kenner, the Kenner era. New York: National Review, 1985
- Goodwin W. Hugh Kenner: a bibliography. Albany: Whitston Pub. Co., 2001