Background
Kenneth Womack was born on January 24, 1966, in Houston, Texas, United States. He has a brother, Andrew.
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States
In 1990 Kenneth Womack received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Texas A&M University and a Master of Arts degree in 1992.
Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois, United States
In 1997 Kenneth Womack gained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Northern Illinois University.
(Supplemented with useful and wide-ranging author and subj...)
Supplemented with useful and wide-ranging author and subject indexes, this bibliography surveys the enormous quantity of books published on language and literature between 1989 and 1995. In addition to its emphasis upon the multiculturalism and interdisciplinarity that mark contemporary literature study, this volume assembles a host of scholarly works from a broad range of discourses and genres, including cultural studies, philosophy, anthropology, women's studies, theology, linguistics, popular culture, political science, psychology, sociology, biology, and other fields. Entries are grouped in topical chapters for ease of use, and each entry includes a descriptive annotation.
https://www.amazon.com/Recent-Work-Critical-Theory-1989-1995/dp/0313294348
1996
(This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to ma...)
This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers, and scholars. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history.
https://www.amazon.com/Pre-Nineteenth-Century-Collectors-Bibliographers-Dictionary-Biography/dp/0787631078/?tag=2022091-20
1999
(When William Blackwood, George Eliot’s publisher, first s...)
When William Blackwood, George Eliot’s publisher, first saw the manuscript of Felix Holt in 1866 he could not contain his enthusiasm; in a letter to a friend, he described the novel as “a perfect marvel. The time is 1832 just after the passing of the Reform Bill, and surely such a...series of pictures of English Life, manners, and conversation never was drawn. You see and hear the people speaking. Every individual character stands out a distinct figure.” A political radical and a child of the working class, Felix has lost faith in a political system in which candidates never represent the interests of the working class. Harold Transome, the cynical son of wealthy Tory landowners, embraces radical politics for very different reasons. Both Harold and Felix vie for the affections of Esther Lyon, and she must weigh her feelings for them with the social and material goals she has set for herself. Their personal drama unfolds against the broad canvas of social and political upheaval of 1830s England. This edition is based on the text of the first edition of the novel published in three volumes in 1866, and includes a full introduction, a wide range of appendices including reviews, as well as Eliot’s “Address to Working Men, by Felix Holt”; “The Legal Plot of Felix Holt”; and a chronology of Eliot’s life and career.
https://www.amazon.com/Felix-Radical-Broadview-Literary-Texts/dp/1551112280/?tag=2022091-20
2000
(In addition to historicizing, recording, and defining the...)
In addition to historicizing, recording, and defining the nature of the 20th century's most significant textual and bibliographical achievements, this volume offers a useful introductory guide to bibliography and textual criticism and their scholarly evolution. Supplemented with expansive author, subject, and title indexes, the book provides annotated entries for more than 750 monographs and articles published during the 20th century. These are grouped in topical chapters devoted to general bibliography and textual studies, analytical bibliography, descriptive bibliography, textual criticism, historical bibliography, and enumerative bibliography. In tracing the history of 20th-century bibliographical and textual criticism, this book surveys numerous issues and topics.
https://www.amazon.com/Twentieth-Century-Bibliography-Textual-Criticism-Annotated/dp/0313305374
2000
(Divided into four descriptive sections - "Theory and the ...)
Divided into four descriptive sections - "Theory and the Ethics of Literary Text," "Confronting the Difficult: The Ethics of Race and Power," "Making Darkness Visible: The Ethical Implications of Narrative as Witness," and "Ways of Seeing: The Diversity of Applied Ethical Criticism" - this unprecedented collection of essays traces the interpretive, pedagogic, and theoretical concerns inherent in the study of literature, ethics, and modes of criticism.
https://www.amazon.com/Mapping-Ethical-Turn-Culture-Literary/dp/0813920558
2001
(Key Concepts in Literary Theory presents the student of l...)
Key Concepts in Literary Theory presents the student of literary and critical studies with a broad range of accessible, precise and authoritative definitions of the most significant terms and concepts currently used in psychoanalytic, poststructuralist, Marxist, feminist, and postcolonial literary studies.The volume also provides clear and useful discussions of the main areas of literary, critical and cultural theory, supported by bibliographies and an expanded chronology of major thinkers.
https://www.amazon.com/Concepts-Literary-Theory-Julian-Wolfreys/dp/0748624589
2001
(As a literary genre, academic fiction has emerged in rece...)
As a literary genre, academic fiction has emerged in recent years as one of the most popular modes for satirizing the cultural conflicts and sociological nuances inherent in campus life. Drawing upon recent insights in ethical criticism and moral philosophy, Postwar Academic Fiction: Satire, Ethics, Community offers new readings of fictional and nonfictional works by such figures as Kingsley Amis, Vladimir Nabokov, Joyce Carol Oates, David Lodge, David Mamet, Ishmael Reed, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar and Jane Smiley.
https://www.amazon.com/Postwar-Academic-Fiction-Satire-Community/dp/0333918827
2001
(Victorian novels remain enormously popular today: some co...)
Victorian novels remain enormously popular today: some continue to be made into films, while authors such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot are firmly established in the canon and taught at all levels. These works have also attracted a great deal of critical attention, with much current scholarship examining the novel in relation to its historical, political, and cultural contexts. This reference book is an introductory guide to the Victorian novel, its background, and its legacy. Each chapter is written by an expert contributor and offers a fresh account of past, current, and new directions in scholarship.
https://www.amazon.com/Companion-Victorian-Novel-William-Baker/dp/0313314071
2002
(This invaluable guide offers an accessible introduction t...)
This invaluable guide offers an accessible introduction to two important movements in the history of 20th-century literary theory. A complementary text to the Palgrave volume Postmodern Narrative Theory by Mark Currie, this new title addresses a host of theoretical concerns, as well as each field's principal figures and interpretive modes. As with other books in the transitions series, Formalist Criticism and Reader-Response Theory includes readings of a range of widely-studied texts, including Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, among others.
https://www.amazon.com/Formalist-Criticism-Reader-Response-Theory-Davis/dp/033376532X
2002
(The development in recent years of the intersections betw...)
The development in recent years of the intersections between the family and literary study continues to emerge as one of the most productive and illuminating arenas of contemporary critique. In addition to addressing the family dynamic through which a given literary character develops a fully realized sense of self, family systems therapy allows readers to examine the patterns by which characters function in their larger intimate systems, whether those systems be social, institutional, or even global.
https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Family-Dance-Systems-Literary/dp/087413823X
2003
(Addresses the band’s resounding impact on how we think ab...)
Addresses the band’s resounding impact on how we think about gender, popular culture, and the formal and poetic qualities of music. Despite the enormous amount of writing devoted to the Beatles during the last few decades, the band’s abiding intellectual and cultural significance has received scant attention. Using various modes of literary, musicological, and cultural criticism, the essays in Reading the Beatles firmly establish the Beatles as a locus of serious academic and cultural study. Exploring the group’s resounding impact on how we think about gender, popular culture, and the formal and poetic qualities of music, the contributors trace not only the literary and musicological qualities of selected Beatles songs but also the development of the Beatles’ artistry in their films and the ways in which the band has functioned as a cultural, historical, and economic product. In a poignant afterword, Jane Tompkins offers an autobiographical account of the ways in which the Beatles afforded her with the self-actualizing means to become less alienated from popular culture, gender expectations, and even herself during the early 1960s.
https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Beatles-Cultural-Literary-Criticism/dp/0791467163/?tag=2022091-20
2006
(In Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the B...)
In Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles, Kenneth Womack brings the band's story vividly to life-from their salad days as a Liverpool Skiffle group and their apprenticeship in the nightclubs and mean streets of Hamburg through their early triumphs at the legendary Cavern Club and the massive onslaught of Beatlemania itself. By mapping the group's development as an artistic fusion, Womack traces the Beatles' creative arc from their first, primitive recordings through Abbey Road and the twilight of their career.
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Winding-Roads-Evolving-Artistry/dp/0826417469
2007
(From Please Please Me to Abbey Road, this collection of e...)
From Please Please Me to Abbey Road, this collection of essays tells the fascinating story of the Beatles - the creation of the band, their musical influences, and their cultural significance, with emphasis on their genesis and practices as musicians, songwriters, and recording artists. Through detailed biographical and album analyses, the book uncovers the background of each band member and provides expansive readings of the band's music.
https://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Companion-Beatles-Companions-Music/dp/0521689767
2009
(A fascinating look at the history of the Beatles, from th...)
A fascinating look at the history of the Beatles, from their formative years through the present day, as detailed in hundreds of entries chock-full of information never before shared with the public.
https://www.amazon.com/Beatles-Encyclopedia-volumes-Everything-Four/dp/0313391718/?tag=2022091-20
2014
(The Beatles are probably the most photographed band in hi...)
The Beatles are probably the most photographed band in history and are the subject of numerous biographical studies, but a surprising dearth of academic scholarship addresses the Fab Four. New Critical Perspectives on the Beatles offers a collection of original, previously unpublished essays that explore 'new' aspects of the Beatles. The interdisciplinary collection situates the band in its historical moment of the 1960s, but argues for artistic innovation and cultural ingenuity that account for the Beatles' lasting popularity today. Along with theoretical approaches that bridge the study of music with perspectives from non-music disciplines, the texts under investigation make this collection 'new' in terms of Beatles' scholarship. Contributors frequently address under-examined Beatles texts or present critical perspectives on familiar works to produce new insight about the Beatles and their multi-generational audiences.
https://www.amazon.com/New-Critical-Perspectives-Beatles-Identity/dp/1137570121
2016
(For the Beatles, 1967 marks a signal crossroads that woul...)
For the Beatles, 1967 marks a signal crossroads that would both transform the group’s career and place them on a trajectory towards their eventual disbandment. It was a year in which they exploded prevailing rock music demographics through the global onslaught and international success of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band beginning in June 1967. Yet it was also a period that saw them in a precarious state of flux throughout the summer and fall months, as the band attempted to recapture their artistic direction in the wake of Sgt. Pepper and the untimely death of manager Brian Epstein. The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper, and the Summer of Love draws readers into that pivotal year in the life of the band. For the Fab Four, 1967 would see the band members part ways with psychedelia and the avant-garde through the trials and tribulations of the Magical Mystery Tour, a project that resulted in a series of classic recordings, while at the same time revealing the bandmates’ aesthetic vulnerabilities and failings as would-be filmmakers and auteurs.
https://www.amazon.com/Beatles-Sgt-Pepper-Summer-Record/dp/1498534732/?tag=2022091-20
2017
(George Martin - the man, the mind, the music. This is the...)
George Martin - the man, the mind, the music. This is the story of the legendary Beatles producer. The first of two volumes, MAXIMUM VOLUME traces Martin's early life, from an impoverished childhood, through WWII, to becoming head of EMI's Parlophone Records. There, he made waves in British comedy and saved Parlophone from ruin with records from the likes of Spike Milligan. Then one day he discovered a scruffy beat band from Liverpool... As this dramatic story unfolds, the book transports you into the studio with Martin and the Beatles, exploring how his musical genius shaped their incredible body of work and helped craft hit after hit. In the process, Martin would define the modern concept of a record producer.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Maximum-Beatles-Producer-George-1926-1966/dp/1903360242/?tag=prabook0b-20
2017
(Sound Pictures offers a powerful glimpse into the mind, t...)
Sound Pictures offers a powerful glimpse into the mind, the music, and the man behind the sound of the Beatles. The second book of two, SOUND PICTURES traces the story of George Martin and the Beatles' incredible artistic trajectory after reaching the creative heights of Rubber Soul. As the bandmates engage in brash experimentation both inside and outside of the studio, Martin toils along with manager Brian Epstein to consolidate the Beatles' fame in the face of growing sociocultural pressures, including the crisis associated with the `Beatles are more popular than Jesus' scandal.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sound-Pictures-Beatles-Producer-1966-2016/dp/1903360269/?tag=prabook0b-20
2018
(Womack's colorful retelling of how this landmark album wa...)
Womack's colorful retelling of how this landmark album was written and recorded is a treat for fans of the Beatles. Solid State takes readers back to 1969 and into EMI's Abbey Road Studio, which boasted an advanced solid state transistor mixing desk. Womack focuses on the dynamics between John, Paul, George, Ringo, and producer George Martin and his team of engineers, who set aside (for the most part) the tensions and conflicts that had arisen on previous albums to create a work with an innovative (and, among some fans and critics, controversial) studio-bound sound that prominently included the new Moog synthesizer, among other novelties.
https://www.amazon.com/Solid-State-Story-Abbey-Beatles/dp/1501746855/?tag=2022091-20
2019
(As the twentysomething refugee navigates her way among th...)
As the twentysomething refugee navigates her way among the commuter school’s working-class environs in tiny Fremont, Ohio, Azza comes into the orbit of 17-year-old Kip Beckelhymer, a precocious, history-obsessed senior trying to win back the love of Birdie Hudgins, his mercurial high-school sweetheart.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1684332648/?tag=2022091-20
2019
critic editor educator speaker author
Kenneth Womack was born on January 24, 1966, in Houston, Texas, United States. He has a brother, Andrew.
In 1990 Kenneth Womack received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Texas A&M University and a Master of Arts degree in 1992. In 1997 Womack gained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Northern Illinois University.
Kenneth Womack is the editor of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, published by Penn State University Press, and co-editor of the English Association’s prodigious Year’s Work in English Studies, published by Oxford University Press. He is a dean of the Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Monmouth University, where he also serves as a professor of English.
Womack's Beatles-related books include Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles (2007) and The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles (2009), which was named as The Independent’s "Music Book of the Year." In 2014, Ken published The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the group’s legendary appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.
His latest book project involves a two-volume, full-length biography devoted to famed Beatles producer Sir George Martin. The first book in the series is entitled Maximum Volume: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin (The Early Years, 1926-1966). The second volume, Sound Pictures: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin (The Later Years, 1966-2016), was published in September 2018. He is also the author of four novels.
(Divided into four descriptive sections - "Theory and the ...)
2001(In Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the B...)
2007(Key Concepts in Literary Theory presents the student of l...)
2001(As the twentysomething refugee navigates her way among th...)
2019(From Please Please Me to Abbey Road, this collection of e...)
2009(In addition to historicizing, recording, and defining the...)
2000(This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to ma...)
1999(When William Blackwood, George Eliot’s publisher, first s...)
2000(Victorian novels remain enormously popular today: some co...)
2002(A fascinating look at the history of the Beatles, from th...)
2014(The development in recent years of the intersections betw...)
2003(The Beatles are probably the most photographed band in hi...)
2016(Supplemented with useful and wide-ranging author and subj...)
1996(As a literary genre, academic fiction has emerged in rece...)
2001(For the Beatles, 1967 marks a signal crossroads that woul...)
2017(Addresses the band’s resounding impact on how we think ab...)
2006(This invaluable guide offers an accessible introduction t...)
2002(Womack's colorful retelling of how this landmark album wa...)
2019(Sound Pictures offers a powerful glimpse into the mind, t...)
2018(George Martin - the man, the mind, the music. This is the...)
2017Kenneth Womack is married to Jeanine.