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Kathryn Hume
Kathryn
Hume
is an
academic
writer
on
fantasy fiction
. Hume is
Edwin Erle Sparks
Emerita Professor
of English,
Penn State University
. She won the
IAFA Distinguished Scholarship Award
in
1988
.
Education
Hume graduated from
Harvard University
and
University of Pennsylvania
.
Works
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
.