A HOMEMADE WORLD The American Modernist Writers

Kenner, Hugh

ISBN 10: 0394491025 / ISBN 13: 9780394491028

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1975

First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Laid in is slip from the publisher identifying it as a complimentary copy. The slip is SIGNED by Kenner. 8vo brown cloth. PLEASE NOTE that all our First Editions are also First Printings, unless we specifically note otherwise. All our dust jackets are protected in clear mylar covers. Fine in near fine dj with sunning to spine. Seller Inventory # 50897

Synopsis:

The "homemade world" Hugh Kenner describes exists alongside the world of Pound, Joyce, and Eliot. While they were laying the international foundations of literary modernism, another modernism far more specifically American was being born in the work of William Faulkner, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Kenner deals in turn with each of the six, with the American conditions that shaped them, and with the peculiarly homemade strengths that led to their achievement. "A Homemade World" is a book to stimulate thought, argument, and an altogether fresh consideration of twentieth-century writing.

Review:

"It's always an unexpected pleasure to find serious literary criticism written as if the English language still mattered, as Hugh Kenner's writing insists that it does... A Homemade World is a lively, provocative, wonderfully intelligent critical performance." -- T. R. Edwards, New York Times Book Review

Bibliographic Details

Title: A HOMEMADE WORLD The American Modernist ...
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Publication Date: 1975
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: First Edition / First Printing.