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Frank Lentricchia, Professor of Literature and Theater Studies

Frank Lentricchia
Office Location:  119 Art Museum
Office Phone:  +1 919 684 6172
Email Address:   send me a message
Web Page:   http://www.duke.edu/web/theaterstudies/~frll

Research Interests:

Frank Lentricchia (Ph.D., Duke) has taught at UCLA, UC Irvine, and Rice. His chief interests lie in American literature, history of poetry, modernism, the role of the intellectual in culture, and the history and theory of criticism. His major publications include 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), After the New Criticism (1980), Criticism and Social Change (1983), Ariel and the Police (1988), Critical Terms for Literary Study (1990), Introducing Don DeLillo (1991), New Essays on White Noise (1991), The Edge of Night (1994), Modernist Quartet (1994), Johnny Critelli and The Knifeman (1996), The Music of the Inferno (1999), Lucchesi and The Whale (2001), Close Reading: The Reader, with Andrew Dubois (2003), Dissent from the Homeland: Essays after 9/11 (2003), with Jody Mcauliffe, and Crimes of Art and Terror (2003). He was editorial chair of South Atlantic Quarterly for five years.

Teaching (Fall 2008):

Education:

PhDDuke University1966
MADuke University1963
BAUtica College1962
Specialties:

American Literature
Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. F. Lentricchia. The Italian Actress.  Guernica Editions, (2008).
  2. F. Lentricchia, No official title at this time, in Book of Essays about Lentricchia's Fiction (2007), Guernica Editions .
  3. F. Lentricchia, Issue Editor, South Atlantic Quarterly: Special Issue (Winter 2004), Duke University Press (including poetry, fiction, criticism, and photo essays.) .
  4. F. Lentricchia with Jody McAuliffe. Crimes of Art and Terror.  University of Chicago Press, (2003).
  5.  Close Reading: The Reader.  edited by Frank Lentricchia and Andrew DuBois Duke University Press, (2003).

 


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