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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 purple decades (Kenner calls him "the nonchalant master of the neon-piped sentence"). Other writers who fall under Kenner's appraising gaze include Flann O'Brien, H.D., Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Dante, Leslie Fiedler, Wallace Stevens, Saul Bellow, William Carlos Williams, Samuel Beckett, and Vladimir Nabokov.
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- Title Historical Fictions
- Author Hugh Kenner
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st US - 1st Pri
- Pages 344
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Georgia Press, Bogart, Georgia, U.S.A.
- Date 1995-10-01
- ISBN 9780820317748 / 0820317748
- Weight 1.07 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 8.97 x 6.02 x 0.86 in (22.78 x 15.29 x 2.18 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Literature - History and criticism
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95013228
- Dewey Decimal Code 809
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