Books by Alvin B. Kernan and Complete Book Reviews

Alvin B. Kernan, Author . Yale Univ. $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-300-09290-5
While Kernan's memoirs and literary criticism have garnered praise, what he presents here is disappointing and, in places, unreadable. Kernan, a scholar of English Renaissance satire, constructs fictional portraits based on John Steinbeck's...
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Alvin B. Kernan, Author Yale University Press $20 (239p) ISBN 978-0-300-05238-1
Princeton professor Kernan explores how our technological society is swiftly abandoning reading for TV and other electronic media. (Apr.)
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Alvin B. Kernan, Author US Naval Institute Press $24.95 (173p) ISBN 978-1-55750-455-5
This unpretentious memoir is a significant contribution to the growing body of literature on life as an enlistee in the U.S. armed forces of WWII. Kernan joined the Navy in 1940 at 17 to escape Depression-era Wyoming. He spent most of the war on...
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Alvin B. Kernan, Author Yale University Press $48 (330p) ISBN 978-0-300-07589-2
In the process of giving readers an ebullient, sometimes mordant account of his distinguished four-decade career in academia, Kernan (The Death of Literature) also cracks wise--in both senses of the word--on the culture wars and their effects on U.S.
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