Carl Van Doren (1885–1950)
Auteur van Benjamin Franklin
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Mutiny in January: The story of a Crisis in the Continental Army now for the first time fully told from many hitherto… (1943) 13 exemplaren
Jane Mecom, the favorite sister of Benjamin Franklin: her life here first fully narrated from their entire surviving… (1950) 13 exemplaren
The Three Readers: Clifton Fadiman, Sinclair Lewis, Carl Van Doren (1943) — Redacteur; Medewerker — 8 exemplaren
Swift 7 exemplaren
Cato's moral distichs 3 exemplaren
A Short History of American Literature Based on The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield… (1923) — Redacteur — 3 exemplaren
Four Plays by Ibsen: Hedda Gabler; An Enemy of the People; The Lady from the Sea; The Wild Duck (1960) 2 exemplaren
Benjamin Franklin, Volume 3 2 exemplaren
The Letters of Benjamin Franklin and Jane Mecom 1 exemplaar
Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren (1991-06-01) 1 exemplaar
Irony in Velvet [article] 1 exemplaar
Nous, peuple des États-Unis 1 exemplaar
Seven Stories by Hawthorne 1 exemplaar
An Illinois boyhood 1 exemplaar
Meet Dr. Franklin 1 exemplaar
James Branch Cabell; three essays 1 exemplaar
Letters From Carl; a First Selection From the More Intimate Letters Written to His Friends By Carl Van Doren (1951) 1 exemplaar
The Tortable Swift 1 exemplaar
Benjamin Franklin (abridged) 1 exemplaar
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5 Plays: Clouds / Wasps / Birds / Lysistrata / Frogs (1955) — Introductie, sommige edities — 258 exemplaren
Gulliver's Travels / A Tale of a Tub / The Battle of the Books (1704) — Introductie, sommige edities — 111 exemplaren
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present (1959) — Medewerker — 55 exemplaren
Rifleman Dodd and The Gun: Two Novels of the Peninsular Wars (1932) — Voorwoord, sommige edities — 47 exemplaren
I hear America singing;: An anthology of folk poetry, (1937) — sommige edities; Introductie, sommige edities — 15 exemplaren
An Enemy of the People / The Wild Duck / Hedda Gabler / The Lady From the Sea (1950) — Introductie — 15 exemplaren
The Letters of Benjamin Franklin & Jane Mecom, (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society) (1950) — Redacteur — 14 exemplaren
Twentieth-Century American Literature (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1986) — Medewerker — 13 exemplaren
Wings, Vol. 6, No. 2, February 1932 — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Van Doren, Carl Clinton
- Geboortedatum
- 1885-09-10
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1950-07-18
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Hope, Illinois, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Torrington, Connecticut, USA
- Opleiding
- Columbia University (PhD, 1911)
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Beroepen
- novelist
teacher
editor
biographer
critic - Relaties
- Van Doren, Mark (brother)
Van Doren, Charles (nephew) - Organisaties
- Columbia University
The Nation
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1944) - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography (1939)
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Besprekingen
Secret History Of The American Revolution. door Carl Van Doren
1st edition, signed, 260/590
3312. Benjamin Franklin, by Carl Van Doren (read May 20, 2000) This won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and when I noticed it at our public library I thought I would read it. It has aged well, and is very well done. Franklin was a great man and had an interesting life. Of the 83 winners of the Pulitzer Prize for biography I have now read 49. Without concentrating on reading the others I will never get all of them read--and I will not devote all my time to getting them all read.
Carl Van Doren does what most of us do who read and admire Cabell: write about Cabell in Cabellian style. The opening gambit shows as much:
"There are more arguments to prove that James Branch Cabell is a legend than to prove that he is a fact."
But Van Doren is no mere epigone. He's gone all the way into literary criticism, and can focus in on the crucial truth:
"Mr. Cabell is the most humorous of mythologists. Out of what might seem pedantry if there were less gusto in it, or ignorance if there were less method, he has inextricably jumbled all the mythologies as well as all the histories and geographies. nor has he hesitated to invent with a large hand. The result is that he crowds his pages with symbols which may be brilliantly suggestive and which may be merely mystification. But Mr. cabell no more minds irritating than he minds mystifying. he works under cove, always by the method of indirection. . . . Allegory lurks where no one has any reason to suspect it; allegory is also sometimes absent from passages wherein by all precedent it ought to be. What reader, in such circumstances, can be quite sure that Mr. Cabell is not having sport with him?"
Exactly. This is a necessary little book for those who love Cabell. And, perhaps, even for those who are offended at being made sport of.… (meer)
"There are more arguments to prove that James Branch Cabell is a legend than to prove that he is a fact."
But Van Doren is no mere epigone. He's gone all the way into literary criticism, and can focus in on the crucial truth:
"Mr. Cabell is the most humorous of mythologists. Out of what might seem pedantry if there were less gusto in it, or ignorance if there were less method, he has inextricably jumbled all the mythologies as well as all the histories and geographies. nor has he hesitated to invent with a large hand. The result is that he crowds his pages with symbols which may be brilliantly suggestive and which may be merely mystification. But Mr. cabell no more minds irritating than he minds mystifying. he works under cove, always by the method of indirection. . . . Allegory lurks where no one has any reason to suspect it; allegory is also sometimes absent from passages wherein by all precedent it ought to be. What reader, in such circumstances, can be quite sure that Mr. Cabell is not having sport with him?"
Exactly. This is a necessary little book for those who love Cabell. And, perhaps, even for those who are offended at being made sport of.… (meer)
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