Kathryn Hume (born 1945)[1] is an academic writer on medieval literature (Old English, Middle English, Old Icelandic), on fantasy, and on contemporary fiction. Hume is Edwin Erle Sparks Emerita Professor of English, Penn State University.[2] She won the IAFA Distinguished Scholarship Award in 1988.
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Education
editHume graduated from Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania.[3]
Works
edit- The Owl and the Nightingale: The Poem and its Critics, 1975
- Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature, 1984
- Pynchon's Mythography: An Approach to Gravity's Rainbow, 1987
- Calvino's Fictions: Cogito and Cosmos, 1992
- American Dream, American Nightmare: Fiction since 1960, 2000
- Surviving your Academic Job Hunt: Advice for Humanities PhDs, 2005, 2010
- Aggressive Fictions: Reading the Contemporary American Novel, 2012
- The Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960, 2020
References
edit- ^ "Hume, Kathryn, 1945-". Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved June 27, 2015.
- ^ "Named Professorships". Penn State University. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
- ^ "Kit Hume – Department of English".
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