Kent Ljungquist
Biographic Data
| ID | 1037910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kent Ljungquist |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kent |
| FAMILY NAME | Ljungquist |
| SIGNATURE | LJUNGQUIST K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
First Connections with Stagecraft”
This article discusses previously unpublished material from the S. N. Behrman Papers that marks S. N. Behrman’s first encounter with live theater. This material is thus a significant contribution to the biographical record on Behrman. A theater memoir submitted to but rejected by The New Yorker sheds light on Behrman’s early experiment in vaudeville, and records his early encounter with high comedy in the work of Somerset Maugham and his early fa…
Thoreau and Stanley Kunitz's “The Guilty Man”
The Oreades Hear Emerson in Worcester
In Martha Burt Wright's and Anna M. Bancroft's history of the Oread Collegiate Institute, founded by the educational reformer Eli Thayer in 1849, passages from the correspondence of Bernette Hill establish the topic of Ralph Waldo Emerson's 31 January 1856 Worcester lecture as “Beauty.”
Some Unrecorded Reprints of Poe's Works
Communications
Emerson and the Worcester Lyceum, 1855-1857
Gougeon, Len. Virtue's Hero
Emerson Responds to a Critic
Meteor of the War
Deconstructive Poe(tics)
Fables of Mind
This revisionist study of Poe's fiction concentrates on works generally neglected by Poe critics. Operating in reverse chronological order, Joan Dayan begins with a close reading of Poe's Eureka, subtitled Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe and uses this cosmology to examine Poe's method in creating his fiction. This unreadable work, she argues, best exemplifies that method, for in his work, the bizarre, apparently nonsensical, and the …
"The Identity of "Outis
N January I844, an article appearing in the London Foreign Quarterly Review excoriated American poets as either imitators or plagiarists. single exception, according to the anonymous reviewer, was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, unquestionably the first of her [America's] poets, 1 whose excellence derived from his education in the European literary tradition rather than the provincial culture of the United States. review touched off a controversy tha…
The Grand and the Fair
Poe's Nubian Geographer
N 4A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM, before the old mariner s confrontation with the whirlpool, the uninitiated narrator remarks on the prospect: I looked dizzily, and beheld a wide expanse of ocean, whose waters were so inky a hue as to bring to mind the Nubian geographer's account of the Mare Tenebrarum.' In Burton Pollin's Dictionary of Names and Titles in Poe's Collected Works, the identity of this geographical authority is left open to question.…
Poe's Nubian Geographer
N 4A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM, before the old mariner s confrontation with the whirlpool, the uninitiated narrator remarks on the prospect: I looked dizzily, and beheld a wide expanse of ocean, whose waters were so inky a hue as to bring to mind the Nubian geographer's account of the Mare Tenebrarum.' In Burton Pollin's Dictionary of Names and Titles in Poe's Collected Works, the identity of this geographical authority is left open to question.…
The Grand and the Fair
Deconstructive Poe(tics)
Fables of Mind
This revisionist study of Poe's fiction concentrates on works generally neglected by Poe critics. Operating in reverse chronological order, Joan Dayan begins with a close reading of Poe's Eureka, subtitled Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe and uses this cosmology to examine Poe's method in creating his fiction. This unreadable work, she argues, best exemplifies that method, for in his work, the bizarre, apparently nonsensical, and the …
"The Identity of "Outis
N January I844, an article appearing in the London Foreign Quarterly Review excoriated American poets as either imitators or plagiarists. single exception, according to the anonymous reviewer, was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, unquestionably the first of her [America's] poets, 1 whose excellence derived from his education in the European literary tradition rather than the provincial culture of the United States. review touched off a controversy tha…
Meteor of the War
Gougeon, Len. Virtue's Hero
Emerson Responds to a Critic
Emerson and the Worcester Lyceum, 1855-1857
Communications
Some Unrecorded Reprints of Poe's Works
The Oreades Hear Emerson in Worcester
In Martha Burt Wright's and Anna M. Bancroft's history of the Oread Collegiate Institute, founded by the educational reformer Eli Thayer in 1849, passages from the correspondence of Bernette Hill establish the topic of Ralph Waldo Emerson's 31 January 1856 Worcester lecture as “Beauty.”
Thoreau and Stanley Kunitz's “The Guilty Man”
First Connections with Stagecraft”
This article discusses previously unpublished material from the S. N. Behrman Papers that marks S. N. Behrman’s first encounter with live theater. This material is thus a significant contribution to the biographical record on Behrman. A theater memoir submitted to but rejected by The New Yorker sheds light on Behrman’s early experiment in vaudeville, and records his early encounter with high comedy in the work of Somerset Maugham and his early fa…
Art (12 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Thoreau and American Literature (4 works) · History (3 works) · Literary, Cultural, Historical Analysis (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works)