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1	A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers more books like this by Professor Hugh Kenner add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.71! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Joyce's voices more books like this by Professor Hugh Kenner add to wishlist see all copies from $2.98! new only from $10.41! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Dublin's Joyce more books like this by Professor Hugh Kenner add to wishlist Dublin's Joyce is the first book to make use if a large collection of Joyce's letters, manuscripts, and biographical data, while it presents the reader with a perspective of Joyce as a supremely important literary figure, not the revealer of a secret doctrine. see all copies from $2.90! new only from $25.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Pound Era more books like this by Hugh Kenner add to wishlist Combining literary analysis, biography and history, this is a cultural portrait of the first half of the 20th century. As well as discussing Pound's poetry and his sources, it includes a biography of Pound and a series of essays on the parallel developments of Eliot, Joyce, Lewis and Williams. see all copies from $6.34! new only from $26.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	A Homemade World: The American Modernist Writers more books like this by Hugh Kenner add to wishlist An assessment of the modernist writings of Faulkner, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald and the American conditions that shaped each one. see all copies from $9.94! first editions
6	T. S. Eliot: A Collection of Critical Essays more books like this by Hugh Kenner (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
7	A reader's guide to Samuel Beckett more books like this by Professor Hugh Kenner add to wishlist Samuel Beckett, who wrote everything in both French and English, specialised in short enigmatic texts, implying vast visionary works of which the stories are broken pieces. Kenner's guide is designed to help readers see beyond the story in Beckett to the text as a whole and to appreciate the uniqueness of each of his works. Hugh Kenner's books ... see all copies from $2.50! new only from $14.58! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Geodesic Math and How to Use It more books like this by Professor Hugh Kenner add to wishlist Twenty-five years after geodesic domes were first introduced, this text presents a method of design and provides a step-by-step method for producing mathematical specifications for orthodox geodesic domes, as well as for a variety of elliptical, super-elliptical and other nonspherical contours. see all copies from $10.94! new only from $10.94! \| first editions
9	The invisible poet : T.S.Eliot. more books like this by Hugh Kenner add to wishlist see all copies from $8.00! first editions
10	The Elsewhere Community more books like this by Professor Hugh Kenner add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Mazes: 64 Essays more books like this by Professor Hugh Kenner add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $61.47! \| first editions
12	Sinking Island: Mod Eng more books like this by Professor Hugh Kenner add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
13	The counterfeiters; an historical comedy. more books like this by Hugh Kenner add to wishlist KENNER BRINGS TOGETHER HISTORY, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND ART TO LOCATE THE PERSONAL IN AN INCREASINGLY COUNTERFEIT WORLD Wide-ranging enough to encompass Buster Keaton, Charles Babbage, horses, and a man riding a bicycle while wearing a gas mask, THE COUNTERFEITERS is one of Hugh Kenner's greatest achievements. In this fascinating work of literary ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.69! \| first editions \| SVS
14	Ulysses more books like this by Professor Hugh Kenner add to wishlist With characteristic flair, Kenner explores the ways Joyce teaches us to read his novel as Joyce taught himself to write it: moving from the simple to the complex, from the familiar to the strange and new, from the norms of the nineteenth-century novel to the open forms of modernism. see all copies from $12.00! new only from $24.13! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Poetry of Ezra Pound more books like this by Professor Hugh Kenner add to wishlist This pioneering study did much to rehabilitate Erza Pound's reputation after a long period of critical hostility and neglect. Published in 1951, it was the first comprehensive examination of the Cantos and other major works that would strongly influence the course of contemporary poetry. Hugh Kenner, perhaps the preeminent authority on Pound, has ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $31.50! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Mechanic Muse more books like this by Professor Hugh Kenner add to wishlist One of America's distinguished critics examines the response of literary modernism to environmental changes caused by technology. Focusing on Eliot, Pound, Joyce, and Beckett, Hugh Kenner explores how inventions as various as the linotype, the typewriter, and the computer altered the way these writers viewed and depicted the world. Readership ... see all copies from $4.70! new only from $26.12! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Historical Fictions more books like this by Professor Hugh Kenner add to wishlist In this work, Hugh Kenner applies his attention 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 43 lively and often humorous essays, from St Augustine, through Tom Wolfe, to Nabokov. see all copies from $5.50! new only from $19.95! \| first editions
18 view cover	Flaubert, Joyce and Beckett : the stoic comedians more books like this by Hugh Kenner add to wishlist AN ENLIGHTENING STUDY OF THREE LEGENDARY WRITERS Have literary institutions such as introductions, prefaces and footnotes killed the book? The "book as book" has been removed from the oral tradition by such features as prefaces, footnotes, and indexes. Books have become voiceless in some sense - they are to be read silently, not recited aloud. How ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $9.80! \| first editions \| SVS
19	Colder Eye more books like this by Hugh Kenner add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Chuck Jones: A Flurry of Drawings, Portraits of American Genius more books like this by Professor Hugh Kenner add to wishlist Creator of the monomaniacal Wile E. Coyote and his elusive prey, the Road Runner, Chuck Jones has won three Academy Awards and been responsible for many classics of animation featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Elmer Fudd. "A Flurry of Drawings" reveals in cartoon-like sequences the humour and reflection that have shaped Chuck Jones's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $55.95! \| first editions
21	Historical Fictions: Essays more books like this by Professor Hugh Kenner add to wishlist In the companion volume to Mazes, Hugh Kenner sets his nimble mind to work, this time on a variety of literary topics, in forty-two lively, informative, and often humorous essays. This collection includes observations about Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Tom Wolfe, Sylvia Plath, Ernest Hemingway, Saul Bellow and many others. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
22	Seventeenth Century Poetry: The Schools of Donne & Johnson more books like this by Professor Hugh Kenner add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
23	Bucky: A Guided Tour of Buckminster Fuller more books like this by Professor Hugh Kenner add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $159.95! \| first editions \| SVS
24	A Starchamber Quiry: A James Joyce Centennial Volume, 1882-1982 more books like this by Hugh Kenner add to wishlist see all copies from $4.63! first editions
25 view cover	Selected Poems of Desmond Egan more books like this by Desmond Egan, Professor Hugh Kenner (Illustrator) add to wishlist Desmond Egan has published ten books of poetry, one of prose, and an acclaimed translation of the "Medea". Collections of his work have been published in translation in French, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian. This selection by critic and authority on modernist writing Hugh Kenner, features the finest work of a poet whose achievement is in the great ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $31.15! \| signed copies \| first editions

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