Frank Lentricchia (Writers Series) by Thomas Depietro

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By Thomas Depietro

Frank Lentricchia was once born to working-class mom and dad in Utica, ny, on may perhaps twenty third in 1940. He earned his M.A. from Duke college in 1963, and his Ph.D. in 1966. His first books have been approximately glossy poetry, and he then started to write extra approximately literary thought, publishing his ground-breaking books within the early 1980's. Lentricchia served because the editor of 2 ebook sequence, one for The collage of Chicago Press (The Wellek Library Lectures), and one for the college of Wisconsin Press (The Wisconsin undertaking on American Writing.) in the course of those years, he started to go with the flow from his past paintings in thought. Lentricchia’s first non-scholarly book, The fringe of evening, was once released in 1994, and he quickly together with his much-noted essay in Lingua Franca, “Last Will and testomony of an Ex-Literary Critic,” his farewell to particular types of educational feedback and thought. although he didn't thoroughly abandon literary remark, Lentricchia from then on committed himself to fiction. {Guernica Editions}

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