Hugh Kenner

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Canadian literary critic (1923-2003)

Canada WritersLived 1923 to 2003 · aged 80

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William Hugh Kenner was a Canadian literary scholar, critic and professor. His studies on Modernist literature often analyzed the work of James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and Samuel Beckett.

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1956Guggenheim Fellowship

1950John Addison Porter Prize

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William Hugh Kenner was a Canadian literary scholar, critic and professor. His studies on Modernist literature often analyzed the work of James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and Samuel Beckett. His major study of the period, The Pound Era, argued for Pound as the central figure of Modernism, and is considered one of the most important works on the topic.

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Canada