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Kathryn Hume

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#2876

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#4950

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#1343

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Kathryn Hume's Degrees

Masters Comparative Literature Columbia University
Bachelors English Princeton University

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According to Wikipedia, Kathryn Hume is an academic writer on medieval literature , on fantasy, and on contemporary fiction. Hume is Edwin Erle Sparks Emerita Professor of English, Penn State University. She won the IAFA Distinguished Scholarship Award in 1988.

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Kathryn Hume's Published Works

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Fantasy and Mimesis : Responses to Reality in Western Literature (1984) (165)
The Religious and Political Vision of Pynchon's against the Day (2007) (70)
In Defence of Fantasy: A Study of the Genre in English and American Literature since 1945@@@Magical Thought in Creative Writing: The Distinctive Roles of Fantasy and Imagination in Fiction (1984) (42)
The concept of the hall in Old English poetry (1974) (40)
American Dream, American Nightmare: Fiction Since 1960 (2000) (27)
Pynchon's Mythography: An Approach to Gravity's Rainbow. (1987) (21)
The Owl and the Nightingale: The Poems and Its Critics (1975) (20)
Pynchon's Alternate Realities from V. to Inherent Vice (2013) (20)
Attenuated Realities: Pynchon's Trajectory from V. to Inherent Vice (2013) (20)
Aggressive Fictions: Reading the Contemporary American Novel (2012) (18)
The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction (1994) (15)
Taking a Stand While Lacking a Center: Rushdie's Postmodern Politics (1995) (14)
Ishmael Reed and the Problematics of Control (1993) (13)
Voice in Kathy Acker's Fiction (2001) (13)
Beginnings and Endings in the Icelandic Family Sagas (1973) (11)
Books of the Dead: Postmortem Politics in Novels by Mailer, Burroughs, Acker, and Pynchon (2000) (10)
Robert Coover: The Metaphysics of Bondage (2003) (10)
Surviving Your Academic Job Hunt: Advice for Humanities PhDs (2005) (10)
Views from Above, Views from Below: The Perspectival Subtext in Gravity's Rainbow (1988) (10)
William S. Burroughs's Phantasmic Geography (1999) (9)
Narrative Speed in Contemporary Fiction (2005) (9)
Calvino's Fictions: Cogito and Cosmos (1992) (8)
Romance: A Perdurable Pattern. (1974) (8)
Gerald Vizenor's Metaphysics (2008) (8)
THE “RUIN MOTIF” IN OLD ENGLISH POETRY (1976) (6)
Medieval Romance and Science Fiction: The Anatomy of a Resemblance (1982) (5)
Diffused Satire in Contemporary American Fiction (2007) (5)
Moral Problematics in the Novels of Richard Powers (2013) (5)
Robert Coover's Fiction: The Naked and the Mythic (1979) (5)
Assessment of the accuracy of flatness measurement (1974) (4)
The pagan setting of the Franklin's tale and the sources of Dorigen's cosmology (1972) (4)
Grains of Sand in a Sea of Objects: Italo Calvino as Essayist (1992) (4)
Vonnegut's Melancholy (1998) (4)
Neil Gaiman's Sandman as Mythic Romance (2013) (3)
Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature@@@Into the Unknown: The Evolution of Science Fiction from Francis Godwin to H. G. Wells (1986) (3)
Fantasy and Mimesis (Routledge Revivals) : Responses to Reality in Western Literature (2014) (3)
Black Urban Utopia in Wideman’s Later Fiction (2004) (2)
The Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960 (2020) (2)
The Function of the "Hrefn Blaca": "Beowulf" 1801 (1969) (2)
Painting with Words, Writing with Pictures: Word and Image in the Work of Italo Calvino by Franco Ricci (review) (2014) (2)
The owl and the nightingale (1975) (2)
"Dimensions" and John Edgar Wideman's Mental Cosmology (2003) (2)
Repetition and the Construction of Character in Gravity's Rainbow (1992) (2)
American visionary fiction : mad metaphysics as salvation psychology (1980) (1)
The Edifice Complex: Motive and Accomplishment in The Fountains of Paradise (1983) (1)
Sensuality and the Senses in Calvino's Fiction (1992) (1)
Driving performance for the future of work (2019) (1)
Headley’s The Mere Wife: Diffused Satire in a troubling piece of Beowulfiana (2021) (1)
Quest Romance in Science Fiction (2007) (1)
Brautigan's Psychomachia (2001) (1)
Critical approaches to fantasy (2014) (1)
The owl and the nightingale : contexts and interpretations (1971) (0)
Campus Interviews and Negotiating Terms (2005) (0)
The Economics of Being an Assistant Professor (2005) (0)
Comment on "Some human aspects of inspection" (1957) (0)
Realities (2019) (0)
How to Plan Your Job Hunt: Timeline and Documents (2005) (0)
Interfaces, Transitions, and Moires (1986) (0)
James Morrow: An Introduction (2016) (0)
The Author-Reader Contract (2011) (0)
Neurocognitive Patterning and the Creation of Fantasy: Neil Gaiman’s Use of Kipling and Calvino in The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2019) (0)
Psychology made visual: the sandman overture by Neil Gaiman, J. H. Williams III and Dave Stewart (2018) (0)
ASE volume 3 Cover and Back matter (1974) (0)
The "Laxdœla saga": Its Structural Patterns. A. Margaret Arent Madelung (1975) (0)
Epilogue for Placement Officers (2005) (0)
Loki and Odin: Old Gods Repurposed by Neil Gaiman, A. S. Byatt, and Klas Östergren (2019) (0)
Introduction: The Author-Reader Contract (2017) (0)
The Metamorphoses of Empire in the Arthurian Tradition (2018) (0)
The Politics of Postmodernism by Linda Hutcheon (review) (2014) (0)
Book Reviews: Spring 2020 (2020) (0)
The Happening Worlds of John Brunner: Critical Explorations in Science Fiction (1975) (0)
"EXTREME SPECIALIZATION" AND THE BROAD HIGHWAY: APPROACHING CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FICTION (2016) (0)
Surviving Your Academic Job Hunt (2005) (0)
Campus Interviews, Negotiating Terms, and Some Alternatives to Tenure-Track Employment (2010) (0)
The Semiotics of Fantasy in William Kennedy's Fiction (2000) (0)
The Ruins of Urban Modernity: Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Against the Day’ by Utku Mogultay (review) (2022) (0)
Response to Fred W. Ramey (1977) (0)
Novelty, Pattern, and Force in Richard Powers’s Orfeo (2017) (0)
Education and research for production (1955) (0)
Facing Life's Limits in Robert Coover's Recent Fiction (2012) (0)
Developments in dimensional accuracy (1961) (0)
5. Attacking the Reader’s Ontological Assumptions (2011) (0)
Review of Evans Lansing Smith, Thomas Pynchon and the Postmodern Mythology of the Underworld, Modern American Literature: New Approaches vol. 62 (New York: Peter Lang, 2012) (2015) (0)
Amy Tan. Bella Adams. Manchester and New York: Manchester UP, 2002. xii + 220 pages. $21.95 paper. (2005) (0)
Literature of vision: introducing new realities (2014) (0)
Historical perspectives on fantasy and realism (2014) (0)
2. Modalities of Complaint (2011) (0)
The Politics of Being an Assistant Professor (2005) (0)
Coover and the Iron Claw of Culture@@@Robert Coover's Fictions (1988) (0)
What Is Punch that They are Mindful of Him? Neil Gaiman, Ben Aaronovitch, and Russell Hoban (2022) (0)
Preliminary Interviews: Conference, Phone, and Video (2010) (0)
Literature of illusion: invitations to escape reality (2014) (0)
Fundamentals of gauge design (1954) (0)
Why Read Aggressive Fictions (2011) (0)
Conclusion: Why Read Aggressive Fictions? (2017) (0)
3. Conjugations of the Grotesque (2011) (0)

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