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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Mr. Kenner will soon be retiring from his English professorship at the university of Georgia. Mr. Kenner will soon be retiring from his English...
National Review, 11/23/98 by Hugh Kenner · More from publication -
On American words
Fascination with words, puns and spelling is unique to English-speakers, especially Americans. Part of this is because of the irregularities found...
National Review, 02/24/97 by Hugh Kenner · More from publication -
W.S. Gilbert: A Classic Victorian and His Theatre. - book reviews
VICTORIAN poets, Browning excepted, disdained cohesive sentences; cohesion was for prose, whereas maundering was deemed a Tennysonian virtue:...
National Review, 12/23/96 by Hugh Kenner · More from publication -
The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan. - book reviews
VICTORIAN poets, Browning excepted, disdained cohesive sentences; cohesion was for prose, whereas maundering was deemed a Tennysonian virtue:...
National Review, 12/23/96 by Hugh Kenner · More from publication -
T.S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form. - book reviews
AMAZING, the fuss an undistinguished book has caused. Its author, Anthony Julius, is a British lawyer with a British PhD in English. Cambridge...
National Review, 09/30/96 by Hugh Kenner · More from publication -
Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America. - book reviews
ALL RIGHT, the baboon. It was stuffed and bespectacled and stood in Madame's parlor, wearing a wing collar, morning coat, and tie, with tucked...
National Review, 05/01/95 by Hugh Kenner · More from publication -
Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism
AT LAST COUNT, a sixtyish John Updike could list three dozen published books, most of them spun from his fictionist's imagination. In fiction he's...
National Review, 02/17/92 by Hugh Kenner · More from publication -
The Poetry of Richard Milhous Nixon. - book reviews
HERE ARE no sonnets for an idle hour. Stark, terse, hardbitten, cunningly disequihbrated-tiptoe, in fact, on the needlepoint of our century's...
National Review, 11/05/90 by Hugh Kenner · More from publication -
Foucault's Pendulum. - book reviews
Foucault's Pendulum Foucault's Pendulum A TOP MONTSEGUR, south of Toulouse near the Spanish border, light and shadow, just at midsummer noon,...
National Review, 01/22/90 by Hugh Kenner · More from publication -
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age. - book reviews
ALL THROUGH the Thirties we knew the Next War was coming; knew too that we'd be fighting Hitler's Germany. But the Great War of 1914-18 was widely...
National Review, 06/02/89 by Hugh Kenner · More from publication
