Gnomon

Essays on Contemporary Literature

Hugh Kenner

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Dalkey Archive Press
03 June 2016

Literary studies: general

Series: American Literature Series

The gnomon is the part of a sundial that casts its shadow, and Gnomon: Essays on Contemporary Literature represents, in its author s words, a report on ten years watching of shadows. Collecting the earliest short essays and reviews by a man who was arguably the greatest English-language critic-scholar of the twentieth century, Gnomon not only provides valuable, entertaining, and often scabrous insights into the workings of literature, as well as the books of such modern giants as William Carlos Williams, Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, and Ezra Pound, but is itself a cross-section of the development of Kenner s own body of work, which in its beauty, irreverence, and disregard for convention proves him as much an artist as the men and women he spent his life championing.

By: Hugh Kenner
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 250mm, Width: 150mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 666g
ISBN: 9781564784308
ISBN 10: 1564784304
Series: American Literature Series
Pages: 302
Publication Date: 03 June 2016
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Hugh Kenner (1923-2003) was one of America’s great literary critics. He wrote on a range of subjects that includes Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, and geodesic domes.

Reviews for Gnomon: Essays on Contemporary Literature

It s always an unexpected pleasure to find serious literary criticism written as if the English language still mattered, as Hugh Kenner s writing insists that it does. --T. R. Edwards