Frank Lentricchia | Scholars@Duke

Frank Lentricchia
Katharine Everett Gilbert Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Literature

Received his Ph.D. from Duke in 1966 and is Katherine Everett Gilbert Professor of Literature and Theater Studies. He has taught at UCLA, UC Irvine and Rice. His chief interests lie in American literature, history of poetry, modernism, the aesthetics of reading, 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 (2002), Modernist Lyric in the Culture of Capital (2002), Crimes of Art and Terror (2003) and The Book of Ruth (2005). He was editorial chair of South Atlantic Quarterly for five years.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Katharine Everett Gilbert Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Literature, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2013
Professor Emeritus of Literature, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2013

Contact Information

101 Science Bldg. (E. Campus), Buchanan and Trinity, Durham, NC 27701
Box 90670, 101 Science Bldg. (E. Campus), Durham, NC 27708-0670
frll@duke.edu (919) 684-6172

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Duke University 1966
- M.A., Duke University 1963
- B.A., Utica College 1962
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Katharine Everett Gilbert Distinguished Professor of Literature, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1991 - 2013
- Professor with Tenure, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1993 - 2013
- Professor of Theater Studies, Theater Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2001 - 2008
- Professor of the Practice of Drama, Theater Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2000 - 2001
- Professor, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1993 - 1997
- Professor with Tenure, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1984 - 1993
- Professor, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1987 - 1993
Recognition
In the News
- APR 24, 2013
  
  Lentricchia Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Awards & Honors
- Member. American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 2013
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Lentricchia, F. The Accidental Pallbearer. Melville House, 2013.
  - Lentricchia, F. The Sadness of Antonioni, SUNY Press (fiction), 2010.
  - Lentricchia, F. Essays on the Fiction of Frank Lentricchia, ed. by Thomas DePietro. Guernica Editions, 2007.
  - Lentricchia, Frank. SAQ: A General Issue Including Poetry, Fiction, Criticism, and Photo-Essays, 2004.
  - Lentricchia, F. Close Reading: The Reader. Edited by Frank Lentricchia and Andrew DuBois. Duke University Press, 2003.
  - Lentricchia, F. Don DeLillo’s White Noise. Philadelphia, 2003.
  - Lentricchia, F. The Italiam-American Reader. Edited by Bill Tonelli. William Morrow, 2003.
  - Lentricchia, F. "Dissent from the Homeland". Duke University Press, 2003.
  - McAuliffe, J., and F. Lentricchia. Crimes of Art and Terror. University of Chicago Press, 2003.
  - Lentricchia, F. The Penguin Book of Italian-American Writing. Edited by Regina Barreca. New York, 2002.
  - Lentricchia, F. Lucchesi and The Whale. Duke University Press, 2001.
  - Lentricchia, F. The Music of the Inferno. SUNY Press, 1999.
  - Lentricchia, F. Johnny Critelli. Scribner, 1996.
  - Lentricchia, F. The Knifemen. Scribner, 1996.
  - Lentricchia, F. Modernist Quartet. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
  - Lentricchia, F. The Edge of Night. Random House, 1994.
  - Lentricchia, F. Introducing Don DeLillo. Duke University Press, 1991.
  - Lentricchia, F. New Essays on White Noise. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
  - Lentricchia, F. Critical Terms for Literary Study. University of Chicago Press, 1990.
  - Lentricchia, F. Ariel and the Police: Michel Foucault, William James, Wallace Stevens. University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.
  - Lentricchia, F. Criticism and Social Change. University of Chicago Press, 1983.
  - Lentricchia, F. After the New Criticism. University of Chicago Press, 1980.
  - Lentricchia, F. Robert Frost: Modern Poetics and the Landscapes of Self. Duke University Press, 1975.
  - Lentricchia, F. The Gaiety of Language: An Essay on the Radical Poetics of W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens. University of California Press, 1968.
- Academic Articles
  - Lentricchia, F. “The Italian Actress,” 2008.
  - Lentricchia, F. “DeLillo and/or Aristotle.” South Atlantic Quarterly, 2003.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Modern American Lyric in the Culture of Capital.” Cambridge History of American Literature, 2003.
  - Lentricchia, F. “DeLillo and/or Aristotle.” South Atlantic Quarterly, 2000.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Islas Malvinas.” London Review of Books, 1999.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Lucchesi: His Life in Art.” London Review of Books, 1998.
  - Lentricchia, F. “No More Whining.” London Review of Books, 1997.
  - Lentricchia, F. “From ’Johnny Critelli’.” Scribner Magazine, 1996.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Last Will and Testament of an Ex-Literary Critic.” Lingua Franca, 1996.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Christmas 1987.” Harper’S, 1993.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Making It to Mepkin Abbey.” Harper’S, 1992.
  - Lentricchia, F. “My Kinsman, T.S. Eliot.” Raritan, 1992.
  - Lentricchia, F. “The Resentments of Robert Frost.” American Literature, June 1990.
  - LENTRICCHIA, F. “PHILOSOPHERS OF MODERNISM AT HARVARD, C.1900.” South Atlantic Quarterly 89, no. 4 (1990): 787–834.
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  - Lentricchia, F. “Lyric in the Culture of Capitalism.” American Literary History, 1989.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Andiamo.” Critical Inquiry, 1988.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Anatomy of a Jar.” South Atlantic Quarterly, 1987.
  - LENTRICCHIA, F. “RORTY CULTURAL CONVERSATION.” Raritan a Quarterly Review 3, no. 1 (1983): 136–41.
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  - LENTRICCHIA, F. “READING FOUCAULT .1. PUNISHMENT, LABOR, RESISTANCE.” Raritan a Quarterly Review 1, no. 4 (1982): 5–32.
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  - LENTRICCHIA, F. “READING FOUCAULT 'PUNISHMENT, LABOR, RESISTANCE' .2.” Raritan a Quarterly Review 2, no. 1 (1982): 41–70.
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  - Lentricchia, F. “Reivew of Karl Keller’s The Only Kangaroo Among the Beauty.” South Atlantic Quarterly, 1981.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Derrida, History, and Intellectuals.” Salmagundi, 1980.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Review of Richard Poirer’s Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing.” South Atlantic Quarterly, 1979.
  - LENTRICCHIA, F. “HISTORICITY OF FRYES 'ANATOMY'.” Salmagundi a Quarterly of the Humanities and Social Sciences, no. 40 (1978): 97–121.
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  - Lentricchia, F. “Review of Harold Bloom’s Poetry and Repression.” Modern Language Quarterly, March 1977.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Wallace Stevens: The Critic’s Redemption.” Modern Language Quarterly, March 1975.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Robert Frost: Latest Assessments.” Cea Critic, January 1975.
  - Lentricchia, F. “The Poetry of John J. Soldo.” Italian Americana, 1974.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Coleridge and Emerson: Prophets of Silence, Prophets of Language.” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 1973.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Mailer: Occult Gossip.” Riverside Press Enterprise, 1973.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Robert Frost: The Aesthetics of Voice and the Theory of Poetry.” Criticism, 1973.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Experience as Meaning: Robert Frost’s ’Mending Wall’.” Cea Critic, 1972.
  - Lentricchia, F. “The Place of Cleanth Brooks.” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 1970.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Four Types of Nineteenth-Century Poetic.” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 1968.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Yeats and Stevens.” Contemporary Literature, 1968.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Attitudes Toward Literature.” Poetry, May 1967.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Wallace Stevens: Emergence of the Poet.” Poetry, December 1966.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Byron Whirlwind.” Bulletin of the New York Public Library, April 1966.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Some Coordinates of Modern Literature.” Poetry, 1966.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Byron in Boston.” Emerson Society Quarterly, 1964.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Wallace Stevens: The Ironic Eye.” The Yale Review, n.d.
  - Lentricchia, F. “The Romanticism of William James.” Salmagundi, n.d.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Luigi Ventura and the Origins of Italian-American Fiction.” Italian Americana, n.d.
  - Lentricchia, F. “On Behalf of Theory.” Triquarterly, n.d.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Reflections on the Return of William James.” Cultural Critique, n.d.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Patriarchy Against Itself–The Young Manhood of Wallace Stevens.” Critical Inquiry, n.d.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Ezra Pound’s American Book of Wonders.” South Atlantic Quarterly, n.d.
  - Lentricchia, F. “From ’Last Will and Testament’.” Scribner Magazine, n.d.
- Book Sections
  - Lentricchia, F. “"Tales of the Electronic Tribe".” In Don DeLillo’s White Noise. Philadelphia, 2003.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Johnny Critelli.” In The Italian American Reader, edited by Bill Tonelli. William Morrow, 2003.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Sitdown at the Heartland Hotel.” In The Penguin Book of Italian-American Writing, edited by Regina Barreca. New York, 2002.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Don DeLillo’s Primal Scenes.” In White Noise: Text and Criticism, edited by Mark Osteen. New York: Penguin Books, 1998.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Analysis of Burke’s Speech.” In The Legacy of Kenneth Burke, edited by Herbert W. Simons and Trevor Melia. University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
  - Lentricchia, F. “The Redemptive Imagination.” In Modern Critical Views: Robert Frost, edited by Harold Bloom. Chelsea House, 1989.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Foucault’s Legacy: A New Historicism?” In The New Historicism, edited by H Aram Veeser. Routledge, 1989.
  - Lentricchia, F. “The ’Life’ of a Humanist Intellectual.” In The Academic’s Handbook. Duke University Press, 1988.
  - Lentricchia, F. “The Return of William James.” In The Current in Criticism. Purdue University Press, 1987.
  - Lentricchia, F. “On the Ideologies of Poetic Modernism, 1890-1913: The Example of William James.” In Reconstructing American Literary History, edited by Sacvan Bercovitch. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Reading History with Kenneth Burke.” In Representing Kenneth Burke: Selected Papers from the English Institute, edited by Hayden White, 1983.
  - Lentricchia, F. “Robert Frost and Modern Literary Theory.” In Frost: Centennial Essays. University and College Press of Mississippi, 1974.
- Other Articles
  - Lentricchia, F., and F. Issue. “South Atlantic Quarterly: Special Issue.” Duke University Press, 2004.
  - Lentricchia, F. “"Dissent from the Homeland: Essays after 9/11".” South Atlantic Quarterly, September 2002.
Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
Service to the Profession
- Doctorial Exam Committee. August 3, 2008 2008

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