Frank Lentricchia

Frank Lentricchia (born 1940) is an American literary critic, novelist, and film teacher. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Duke University in 1966 and 1963 respectively after receiving a B.A. from Utica College in 1962. Lentricchia is currently a literature and film studies professor at Duke University.

Works

• The Gaiety of Language : An Essay On The Rad ical 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) ISBN 978-0-226-47198-3
• Criticism and Social Change (1983) ISBN 978-0-226-47200-3
• 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 Don DeLillo
• Introducing Don DeLillo (1991) editor
• The Edge of Night. A Confession (1994)
• Modernist Quartet (1994)
• Critical Terms for Literary Study (1995) with Thomas McLaughlin ISBN 978-0-226-47203-4
• Johnny Critelli, and The Knifemen (1996) novellas
• The Music of the Inferno (1999) novel
• Lucchesi and the Whale (2001)
• Dissent from the Homeland: Essays After September 11 (2003) editor with Stanley Hauerwas
• Close Reading (2003) editor with Andrew Dubois
• Crimes of Art and Terror (2003) with Jody McAuliffe ISBN 978-0-226-47205-8
• The Book of Ruth (2005)
• The Portable Lentricchia (2012) ISBN 978-1-59954-040-5
• The Accidental Pallbearer (2012) ISBN 978-1-61219-171-3

References

• Xu, Ben (1992) Situational Tensions of Critic-Intellectuals: Thinking through Literary Politics with Edward W. Said and Frank Lentricchia

External links

• Lentricchia's faculty page at Duke
• Lentricchia feature from Duke Magazine
• Interview with Lentricchia and Jody McAuliffe