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Titre(s) : Questioning minds [Texte imprimé] : the letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner / edited by Edward M. Burns
Publication : Berkeley (Calif.) : Counterpoint, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 2 vol. (CV-1817 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Hugh Kenner (1923-2003) and Guy Davenport (1927-2005) first met in September 1953
when each gave a paper on Ezra Pound at Columbia University. They met again in the
fall of 1957, and their correspondence begins with Kenner's letter of March 7, 1958.
In the next forty-four years, they exchanged over one thousand letters. Their correspondence
about shared enthusiasm is a quarry for those interested in unique perspectives on
Pound, Eliot, Joyce, Beckett, Basil Bunting, Charles Tomlinson, R. Buckminster Fuller,
Stan Brakhage, Jonathan Williams, and the American modernists, William Carlos Williams,
Marianne Moore, and Louis Zukofsky. The correspondence ends with Kenner's letter of
August 9, 2002 lamenting how they had drifted apart. With his mentor, Marshall McLuhan,
Kenner visited Pound at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, in June 1948. Later
he visited Pound in Venice and Rapallo. Davenport also was a visitor to St. Elizabeths,
and, like Kenner, visited Pound in Italy. These letters record their fascination with
Pound's intellectual journey and explore how he translated the "brutality of fact"
into The Cantos. The extensive notes and cross-referencing of archival sources in
Questioning Minds are a major contribution to the study of literary modernism. The
letters contained within explore how new works were conceived and developed by both
writers. They record faithfully, and with candor, the urgency that each brought to
his intellectual and creative pursuits. Here is singular opportunity to follow the
development of their unique fictions and essays"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Burns, Edward M. (1944-....). Éditeur scientifique
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner
Sujet(s) : Davenport, Guy (1927-2005)
Kenner, Hugh (1923-2003)
Genre ou forme : Correspondance
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781619021815. - ISBN 1619021811 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45723697c
Notice n° :
FRBNF45723697
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