Bøger af Hugh Kenner

"An original and entertaining study of, chiefly, Ulysses . . . This is a most stimulating book." Anthony Burgess

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.

An examination of the Cantos and other major works that would strongly influence the course of contemporary poetry.

Joyceans, teacher, their students, and all other readers will find cause for rejoicing in ULYSSES.

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, as well as exposing a cross-section of the the development of Kenner's own incredible body of work.

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.

A critical discussion of Pound's poetry.

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.