Hugh Kenner
Hugh Kenner | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 7, 1923 Peterborough, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | November 24, 2003 (aged 80) Athens, Georgia, U.S. |
| Academic background | |
| Influences | Marshall McLuhan |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Literary criticism |
| Main interests | Modernist literature |
| Notable works | The Pound Era (1971) |
William Hugh Kenner (January 7, 1923 – November 24, 2003) 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.