Frank Lentricchia (born 1940) is an American

literary critic Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. Th ...

, novelist, and film teacher. He received his

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and

M.A. A Master of Arts ( la, Magister Artium or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA, M.A., AM, or A.M.) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Tho ...

from

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

in 1966 and 1963 respectively after receiving a

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from

Utica College Utica University is a private university in Utica, New York. The university dates back to the 1930s when Syracuse University began offering extension courses in the Utica area. In 2016, the university enrolled 3,084 undergraduate students and ...

in 1962. Lentricchia is currently a literature and film studies professor at Duke University.

Works

Academic

*''The Gaiety of Language : An Essay On The Radical Poetics Of W. B. Yeats And Wallace Stevens'' (1968) *''Robert Frost: Modern Poetics and the Landscapes of Self'' (1975) *''Robert Frost: A Bibliography, 1913 – 1974'' (1976) with Melissa Christensen Lentricchia *''After the New Criticism'' (1980) *''Criticism and Social Change'' (1983) *''Ariel and the Police: Michel Foucault, William James, Wallace Stevens'' (1989) *''New Essays on'' White Noise (1991) editor, with Emory Elliot, on ''White Noise'' by

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*''Introducing Don DeLillo'' (1991) editor *''Modernist Quartet'' (1994) *''Critical Terms for Literary Study'' (1995) with Thomas McLaughlin *''Dissent from the Homeland: Essays After September 11'' (2003) editor, with

Stanley Hauerwas Stanley Martin Hauerwas (born July 24, 1940) is an American theologian, ethicist, and public intellectual. Hauerwas was a longtime professor at Duke University, serving as the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity Schoo ...

*''Close Reading: The Reader'' (2003) editor, with Andrew Dubois *''Crimes of Art and Terror'' (2003) with Jody McAuliffe

Non-Fiction

*''The Edge of Night. A Confession'' (1994)

Fiction

*''Johnny Critelli and The Knifemen: Two Novels'' (1996) *''The Music of the Inferno'' (1999) novel *''Lucchesi and the Whale'' (2001) *''The Book of Ruth'' (2005) *''The Italian Actress (2010) *''The Sadness of Antonioni'' (2011) *''The Portable Lentricchia'' (2012)

Eliot Conte Novels

*''The Accidental Pallbearer'' (2012) *''The Dog Killer of Utica'' (2014) *''The Morelli Thing'' (2015)

References

*Xu, Ben (1992) ''Situational Tensions of Critic-Intellectuals: Thinking through Literary Politics with Edward W. Said and Frank Lentricchia'' *Depietro, Thomas, ed. (2011) ''Frank Lentricchia: Essays on His Works''. Canada: Guernica Editions Inc.

External links

Lentricchia's faculty page at Duke

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