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 retired from Duke University, where he was a professor in the Program in Literature.

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) 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
• Modernist Quartet (1994)
• Critical Terms for Literary Study (1995) with Thomas McLaughlin ISBN 978-0-226-47203-4
• Dissent from the Homeland: Essays After September 11 (2003) editor, with Stanley Hauerwas
• Close Reading: The Reader (2003) editor, with Andrew Dubois
• Crimes of Art and Terror (2003) with Jody McAuliffe ISBN 978-0-226-47205-8

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) ISBN 9781438439129
• The Portable Lentricchia (2012) ISBN 978-1-59954-040-5

Eliot Conte Novels

• The Accidental Pallbearer (2012) ISBN 978-1-61219-171-3
• 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
• Lentricchia feature from Duke Magazine
• Interview with Lentricchia and Jody McAuliffe