Edith Fishtine Helman
Edith Fishtine Helman (born September 19, 1905 in Boston , Massachusetts , † March 31, 1994 in Rockport , Massachusetts) was an American Romance and Hispanicist .
Life
Edith F. Helman received her doctorate in 1932 from Bryn Mawr College with the thesis Don Juan Valera, the Critic (Bryn Mawr 1933) and was then Professor of Spanish at Simmons College in Boston until 1971 . In 1956 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Works
- (Ed. With Caroline Brown Bourland ) Vida y hazañas de Juan Belmonte, torero , New York 1939
- (Translator) Pedro Salinas , Reality and the Poet in Spanish Poetry , Baltimore 1940, 1966
- (Ed.) José Cadalso , Noches lúgubres , Madrid 1951, 1961, 1968
- (Ed.) Federico García Lorca, La zapatera prodigiosa , New York 1952
- Trasmundo de Goya , Madrid 1963, 1983, 1986, 1993
- (Ed. With Doris King Arjona) Narradores de hoy , New York 1966
- Jovellanos y Goya , Madrid 1970
- Los "caprichos" de Goya , Barcelona 1971
- (Translator with Norma Farber) Pedro Salinas, To live in pronouns. Selected love poems , New York 1974
- (with Werner Hofmann and Martin Warnke ) Goya, "All will fall" , Frankfurt am Main 1981, 1987
literature
- Boston Globe April 2, 1994 ( http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8273189.html )
Web links
- Literature by and about Edith Fishtine Helman in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries )
- http://alumnet.simmons.edu/page.aspx?pid=2466 (with picture)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Helman, Edith Fishtine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romance Studies and Hispanic Studies |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 1994 |
| Place of death | Rockport , Massachusetts |