title: The Elsewhere Community (Massey Lectures)
author:  Hugh Kenner 
description: Part memoir, part essay on the theme of the Grand Tour, this work by KennerDa prolific critic, professor emeritus at the University of Georgia, and the leading authority on the poet Ezra PoundDdiscusses the role of travel as part of completing one's education and as a metaphor for intellectual discovery. Kenner speaks of travel as a search for mentors, which he refers to as the Elsewhere Community. In addition to examples of the Grand Tour, he draws on his Canadian father's trip to Rome, as well as his own experiences with mentors such as Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams, each part of Kenner's own Elsewhere Community. He discusses passages from these and other writers, such as Yeats and the poet Patty Kavanagh, to illustrate their own searches for a like group. He also reflects on the meaning of the Internet and reading as part of the community. Originally delivered as five talks on Canadian radio in 1997, Kenner's treatment is accessible, if occasionally repetitive. This thoughtful, witty, and charming book is highly recommended.DT.L. Cooksey, Armstrong Atlantic State Univ., Savannah, GA <BR>Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: THE MORAL AMBIGUITY
  OF AMERICA
  PAUL GOODMAN/THE MASSEY LECTURES FOR 1966
  
  THE MORAL AMBIGUITY OF AMERICA
  
  Digitized by the Internet Archive
  in 2011
  http://www.archive.org/details/moralambiguityofOOgood
  
  THE MORAL AMBIGUITY OF AMERICA
  Massey Lectures, Sixth Series
  by Paul Goodman
  Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
  
  Copyright ® by Paul Goodman, 1966.
  All rights reserved.
  Second impression 1967
  Third impression 1967
  Printed in Canada for
  CBC PUBLICATIONS, BOX 500, TORONTO 1
  by T. H. Best Printing Company Limited
  
  The Moral Ambiguity of America represents the text of the
  sixth annual series of Massey Lectures as broadcast on radio
  during the
  fall of 1966. The series was arranged by Robert
  McCormack and produced by Del MacKenzie of the CBC De-
  partment of Public Affairs. Begun in 1961 by the CBC to en-
  able distinguished authorities in fields of general interest and
  importance to present the results of original study or research,
  the Lectures were named in honor of the Rt. Hon. Vincent
  Masse