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by Hugh Kenner

From 18th-century Grand Tours to today's planet-wide Internet journeys, this book is a fascinating exploration of man's desire for knowledge and the inevitable quest for an elsewhere that results.


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"'All humans, by their nature, ' said Aristotle, 'desire to know.' A special and unparalleled way to know is to simply go where you've never been before. And the key to this quest for knowledge is 'elsewhere.'"
So begins The Elsewhere Community by acclaimed literary critic Hugh Kenner, author of The Pound Era, and himself a living archive of modernism in twentieth-century literature. Kenner traces the quest for elsewhere as it manifests itself in various modes of "travel," from the eighteenth century English tradition of a Grand Tour to the continent, to literary meetings-of-the-mind (Milton's visit to Galileo, T.S. Eliot's to Ezra Pound, Kenner's own visit to Beckett), to today's planet-wide Internet journeys, free from all physical limitations. As he chronicles this Elsewhere Community built of people exploring the unknown, Kenner illuminates how this passion has infused literature, from Homer and Dante to Dickens and Joyce. Kenner frames this unique exploration with a witty rumination on the life of the literary expatriate, fondly recalling his friendships with Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, Wyndham Lewis, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, and other twentieth-century literary
luminaries. Thus a fascinating intellectual autobiography emerges of Hugh Kenner as critic and chronicler, a man whose own life and work uniquely position him to assess the importance of travel in literary life.
Written with the confidence, grace, and verve that have always characterized Kenner's work, this delightful book is for anyone seeking to understand the irrepressible human urge to travel and to know.

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  • Title The Elsewhere Community
  • Author Hugh Kenner
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York
  • Date 2000-06-29
  • ISBN 9780195132977 / 0195132971
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.04 x 0.86 in (20.57 x 12.80 x 2.18 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Travel in literature, Civilization, Western
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98179624
  • Dewey Decimal Code 909.098

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Citations

  • Booklist, 04/15/2000, Page 1518
  • Kirkus Reviews, 04/15/2000, Page 536
  • Library Journal, 05/15/2000, Page 94
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/17/2000, Page 69

About the author


Hugh Kenner is Franklin and Callaway Professor of English, Emeritus, at the University of Georgia. He has held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the American Philosophical Society, and is currently a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is the author of over thirty books, including The Pound Era, The Mechanic Muse (Oxford) and A Sinking Island: The Modern English Writers. He lives in Athens, GA
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