Mazes: Essays by Hugh Kenner (PDF)

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Mazes provides a pleasurable journey through a lively mind at its best. In this collection of fifty essays, critic Hugh Kenner turns an appraising gaze on an astonishing range of subjects – from Einstein’s time dilation principle and Mandelbrot’s fractals to Georgia O’Keefe and R. Buckminster Fuller, from computer literacy and the “poetry” of Richard Nixon to Buster Keaton and King Kong.

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Editorial Reviews: About the Author HUGH KENNER was the Franklin and Callaway Professor of English at the University of Georgia. He is the author of more than twenty-five books, including The Pound Era, Joyce’s Voices, and Chuck Jones: A Flurry of Drawings.

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⭐I think is the last of the Kenner books; I’ve read them all, with their ups and downs, and this is a great one to go out on.Kenner begins by warning us that it’s an assortment, and that his last literary essays are collected elsewhere (Historical Fictions). Don’t be fooled. In addition to the essays on everything from Irish politics to Georgia O’Keefe, there are some literary gems, such as obituaries for Marshall McLuhan, Frank Budgen, Dorothy Pound, Louis Zukovsky. There are essays on Joyce — of course — winding through ideas we never thought of. There are sidelong glances at Flaubert, Orwell, Beckett, and Buster Keaton. There are a handful of fun essays on Buckminster Fuller and one — obligatory — on mazes. They are all a delight to read.If you want a solid perspective on literature of the WW era in English, choose your preferred region and pick up A Colder Eye (Ireland), A Homemade World (the US), or The Sinking Island (England). If you are ready to be overwhelmed, read his masterpiece, The Pound Era; if you merely want to be charmed, try his wonderful biography of Chuck Jones. If you want literature with your amusement, read The Counterfeiters, which simulataneously destroys Cartesian dualism and illuminates Gullivers Travels, with a generous dose of Buster Keaton’s films.No two intellectuals, I suppose, could be more different that Hugh Kenner — National Review conservative, Wyndham Lewis enthusiast, and master of 20C literature — and George Steiner — master of all literature. But they were/are (Kenner is dead, Steiner in his 80s) literary giants a lifetime seldom gets two of.

⭐This book is one of my all-time favorites. Hugh Kenner was a truly brilliant man and an agile writer, and it shows in this collection.If you’re looking for great depth on a single topic, this particular volume isn’t going to be satisfying, but if you want a wide-ranging and continually surprising — and often funny — smattering of observations from a quick and insightful mind, you can’t go wrong with Mazes.Topics range from art to literature, architecture, computers, office culture, and much more. You never know what’s around the next corner, and that’s a great share of the delight of this book.By all means, get this book, dive in, and have a pleasant and enjoyable swim. If you have a curious mind, Mazes will not let you down.

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