# Frank Lentricchia

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**Frank Lentricchia** (born 1940) is an American [literary critic](/source/Literary_critic), novelist, and film teacher. He received his [Ph.D.](/source/Ph.D.) and [M.A.](/source/Master's_degree) from [Duke University](/source/Duke_University) in 1966 and 1963 respectively after receiving a [B.A.](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) from [Utica College](/source/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) [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-226-47198-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-226-47198-3)

- *Criticism and Social Change* (1983) [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-226-47200-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-226-47200-3)

- *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](/source/Don_DeLillo)

- *Introducing Don DeLillo* (1991) editor

- *Modernist Quartet* (1994)

- *Critical Terms for Literary Study* (1995) with Thomas McLaughlin [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-226-47203-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-226-47203-4)

- *Dissent from the Homeland: Essays After September 11* (2003) editor, with [Stanley Hauerwas](/source/Stanley_Hauerwas)

- *Close Reading: The Reader* (2003) editor, with Andrew Dubois

- *Crimes of Art and Terror* (2003) with Jody McAuliffe [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-226-47205-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-226-47205-8)

### 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) [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781438439129](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781438439129)

- *The Portable Lentricchia* (2012) [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-59954-040-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-59954-040-5)

#### Eliot Conte Novels

- *The Accidental Pallbearer* (2012) [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-61219-171-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-61219-171-3)

- *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](http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Literature/faculty/frll)

- [Lentricchia feature from Duke Magazine](https://web.archive.org/web/20070609100228/http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/070802/frank.html)

- [Interview with Lentricchia and Jody McAuliffe](https://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/472051in.html)

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