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 possibilities of fiction is Kenner's subject. Each of the three featured authors approached this situation in a unique, yet connected way: Flaubert as the "Comedian of the Enlightenment", categorising man's intellectual follies. Joyce as the "Comedian of the Inventory", with his meticulously constructed lists. Beckett as the "Comedian of the Impasse", eliminating facts and writing novels about a man alone, writing.
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Hugh Kenner (1923-2003) was one of the great literary critics of the twentieth century. He taught at several universities in his lifetime and was a frequent contributor to the National Review. His numerous critical books include The Pound Era, Joyce's Voices, Gnomon, Samuel Beckett: A Critical Study, and The Counterfeiters: An Historical Comedy.
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- Literature, Modernism and Myth: Belief and Responsibility in the Twentieth Century by Michael Bell in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Flann O'Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-Modernist (Poetry/literary criticism) by Keith Hopper on page 197, and Back Matter
- A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms by Linda Hutcheon in Back Matter
- Map is not Territory: Studies in the History of Religions by Jonathan Z. Smith on page 252
- Realist Vision by Professor Peter Brooks in Back Matter
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