Hugh Kenner

Hugh Kenner

Hugh Kenner est né à Peterborough, dans l'Ontario, au Canada le 7 janvier 1923. Professeur et critique littéraire canadien, il écrit la poésie d'Ezra Pound(1951) à la suite de sa rencontre avec ce dernier, dans un hôpital en 1948.Devenus amis, Ezra Pound lui inspire le livre: The Rose in the Steel Dust. En 1950, il devient Docteur ès littérature, à l'Université Yale, grâce à James Joyce: Critique in Progress, qui deviendra en 1956,Dublin's Joyce. Il enseigne dans différentes universités prestigieuses: l'Université de Californie, à Santa Barbara; l'Université Johns Hopkins (de 1973à 1990), et l'Université de Georgie (de 1990 à 1999). Il décède le 23 novembre 2003.

Œuvres

  • Paradox in Chesterton (1947)
  • The Poetry of Ezra Pound (New Directions, 1951)
  • Wyndham Lewis: A Critical Guidebook (1954)
  • Dublin's Joyce (Indiana University Press, 1956; rpt., Columbia University Press, 1987)
  • Gnomon: Essays in Contemporary Literature (1959)
  • The Art of Poetry (L'Art de la Poésie) (1959)
  • The Invisible Poet: T.S. Eliot (1959; rev. ed, 1969)
  • Samuel Beckett: A Critical Study (Grove Press, 1961; rev. ed., 1968)
  • T.S. Eliot: A Collection of Critical Essays (editor) (Prentice-Hall, 1962)
  • The Stoic Comedians: Flaubert, Joyce, and Beckett(1962) (illustrated by Guy Davenport)
  • Seventeenth Century Poetry: The Schools of Donne & Jonson (editor) (1964)
  • Studies in Change: À Book of the Short Story (editor) (1965)
  • The Counterfeiters: An Historical Comedy (Indiana University Press, 1968; The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985) (illustrated by Guy Davenport)
  • The Pound Era (University of California Press, 1971)
  • Bucky: À Guided Tour of Buckminster Fuller (William Morrow, 1973)
  • A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973)
  • A Homemade World: The American Modernist Writers (Alfred A. Knopf, 1975)
  • Geodesic Math and How to Use It (1976)
  • Ulysses (George Allen & Unwin, 1980; rev. ed., The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987)
  • The Mechanic Muse (Oxford University Press, 1987)
  • A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers (Alfred A. Knopf, 1983)
  • A Sinking Island: The Modern English Writers (1988)
  • Mazes: Essays (North Point Press, 1989)
  • Historical Fictions: Essays (University of Georgia Press, 1995)
  • Chuck Jones: À Flurry of Drawings (1994)
  • The Elsewhere Community (2000)

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