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) Criticism and Social Change (1983) 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 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
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) The Portable Lentricchia (2012)
Eliot Conte Novels The Accidental Pallbearer (2012) 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