Paul Fussell (1924–2012)
Auteur van The Great War and Modern Memory
Over de Auteur
Paul Fussell Jr. was born in Pasadena, California on March 22, 1924. He was drafted into the Army in 1943 while attending Pomona College. During his tour of duty, he won the Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts. He returned to college in 1945. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Pomona College toon meer in 1947 and a master's degree and a doctorate in English from Harvard University. He taught English at Connecticut College for Women, Rutgers University, and the University of Pennsylvania. During this time he wrote several books on literary topics including The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism: Ethics and Imagery from Swift to Burke, Poetic Meter and Poetic Form, and Samuel Johnson and the Life of Writing. In 1975, he published The Great War and Modern Memory, which was a study of World War I and how its horrors fostered a disillusioned modernist sensibility. This book won both the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and the National Book Award for Arts and Letters. His other works include Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars, Class: A Guide Through the American Status System, Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War, BAD: Or, the Dumbing of America, and Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic. He died of natural causes on May 23, 2012 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Werken van Paul Fussell
The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism: Ethics and Imagery from Swift to Burke (1965) 23 exemplaren
English Augustan poetry 12 exemplaren
The nature of meter 1 exemplaar
Popular Culture in the 1930s 1 exemplaar
The Norton Book of Travel 1 exemplaar
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- Officiële naam
- Fussell, Paul, Jr
- Geboortedatum
- 1924-03-22
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2012-05-23
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Pasadena, California, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Medford, Oregon, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Oregon, USA
Princeton, New Jersey, USA - Opleiding
- Pomona College (BA)
Harvard University (MA|1949)
Harvard University (PhD|1952) - Beroepen
- historian
essayist
editor
professor
literary critic - Relaties
- Fussell, Edwin (brother)
Fussell, Rosalind (daughter)
Fussell, Sam (son)
Fussell, Betty (wife, divorced)
Behringer, Harriette (wife) - Organisaties
- United States Army (WWII)
Modern Language Association of America
Academy of Literary Studies
Society of American Historians
English Institute
University of Pennsylvania - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Purple Heart
Bronze Star
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award ( [1980])
Lindback Foundation Award (1971)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1973-74)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1977)
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