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 this mechanical change has affected the ...

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 and cultural criticism, Kenner seeks the causes ...

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 written a retrospective preface for the reissue of

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.

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.