The Counterfeiters: Counterfeiters: An Historical Comedy (Dalkey Archive Scholarly) by Professor Hugh Kenner (PDF)

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Originally published: Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “Kenner is able as few are to show us a style, a signature, a way of being literary that can transform the world of soup cans and dead authors ‘into a sort of word, totally inexplicit, totally assertive, inexplicably permanent.’” (Hudson Review)“Hugh Kenner’s new book is so full of a number of things . . . and so unconfined by the conventional limits of these specialties that the temptation would be to call it a tour de force . . . But it is hard to call a tour de force a work whose impact is as evident and just as the sun on a clear morning.” (National Review) About the Author Hugh Kenner (1923-2003) was one of America’s great literary critics. He wrote on a range of subjects that includes Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, and geodesic domes.As Bruce Bawer wrote in Bookforum, “the late Guy Davenport (1927-2005) left behind an oeuvre that is one long lesson in the history of civilization, and to read any part of it story, essay, or translation is to be enthralled by his unflagging intellectual energy and engagement.” His books include The Geography of the Imagination, The Death of Picasso, Herakleitos and Diogenes, A Table of Green Fields, The Cardiff Team, DaVinci’s Bicycle, and many more.

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⭐I read The Counterfeiters (in effectively one sitting) with some sadness. I realized that only a few more books remain before I will have read everything Hugh Kenner has written. He was one of the geniuses of the century, and The Counterfeiters shows him at his best. Imagine The Critique of Pure Reason written in the form of a few offhand essays about Buster Keaton. Imagine laughing out loud in the middle of a scholarly essay.What Kenner has done in this book is to demolish, with Keatonesque deadpan, the rationalist foundation of Western culture. He is brilliant on Keaton. He is brilliant on Pope and Swift (the best reading of Swift’s intentions in Gulliver’s Travels that I’ve ever seen, and I have a PhD in 18C English Lit). He is brilliant on Andy Warhol and Alan Turing.Kenner is often more interesting to read than his subject. I’ve never been able to finish Ulysses; Dublin’s Joyce is a feast from beginning to end. Pound is an acquired taste; The Pound Era reads like a novel, Umberto Eco without the snobbery. Whether he is writing about William Butler Yeats, Buckminster Fuller, Chuck Jones, or William Carlos Williams, what he has to say will be challenging, well-informed, and entertaining. This is a literary scholar who had a column in Byte magazine for years.Kenner died a few years ago after a long and productive life, leaving behind as legacy a dozen of the most accessible and valuable works of literary criticism in contemporary letters. The Counterfeiters is a great place to meet this amazing mind.

⭐”The Counterfeiters” is a humorous work of genius of the sort one doesn’t usually associate with “literary criticism”… ranging over topics as diverse as comically Bad Poetry, Alan Turing’s Turing Machine (and Turing Game), Andy Warhol, and Buster Keaton’s comic artistry, Kenner probes the nature of identity and “humanitas”. His prose style is remarkably clever and lucid; his prose is complemented by Guy Davenport’s illustrations (e.g., “Mr. Andy Warhol Fetches a Work of Art Through a Metaphysical Barrier”, depicting Warhol taking a can of Campbell’s Tomato Soup from the shelf, one soon to be transformed into a Genuine Warhol Soup Can through the magic of his signature).This short book is well worth reading… and re-reading. I picked this off the shelf at the age of seventeen, didn’t get half of it, but still found it both marvelously entertaining and thought-provoking. I still do, 35 years later!

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