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Academia & Scholarship
Frank Lentricchia
b. 1940Utica, NYItalian American descendantLiving
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Why Included
Duke University literary critic
Biography
Duke University literary critic; After the New Criticism; Lucchesi and the Whale; Utica NY Italian-American. After the New Criticism influenced a generation of scholars; Time named him The Dirty Harry of Literary Criticism
Notable For
- Duke University literary critic
- After the New Criticism
- Lucchesi and the Whale
- Utica NY Italian-American
Honors & Recognition
- After the New Criticism influenced a generation of scholars
- Time named him The Dirty Harry of Literary Criticism
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Quick Facts
- Field
- Academia & Scholarship
- Specialty
- Literary Criticism
- Years
- b. 1940
- Birth Place
- Utica, NY
- Origin
- Italian American descendant
- Regional Ancestry
- Italian
- Ancestry Verification
- Needs Review
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