Morris Dickstein

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Morris Dickstein (born February 23, 1940 ) is an American literary and cultural scientist, literary and film critic and essayist. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus for English Literature and Theater at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York and is a senior fellow at the Center for the Humanities there . He was a co-founder of the National Book Critics Circle .

His research and interests range from romantic English poetry to the history of American literature , contemporary American literature, realism and modernism in literature, urbanism and ethnicity in contemporary American literature, the relationship between politics and literature and, last but not least, to on film and film history and on musicals.

Life and academic career

Morris Dickstein grew up in New York. He studied at Columbia University , at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Cambridge and at Yale , where he graduated with a Ph.D. completed. His academic teachers include a. Lionel Trilling , who belonged to the group of the left New York Intellectuals and wrote regularly for the influential Partisan Review , FR Leavis (1895-1976), literary critic and teacher at Downing College in Cambridge and at University College in New York and Raymond Williams , the founder of cultural studies . He was friends with the internationally renowned literary critic and controversial "pope of literature" of the 1970s and 1980s, Harold Bloom .

On his return to New York, he taught at Columbia University and the Graduate Center of the City University . He is a senior fellow at the Center for the Humanities there , which he founded in 1993.

Since the beginning of his academic career, he has contributed to renowned literary and political journals and magazines, including The New York Times Book Review , Partisan Review , TriQuarterly , The New Republic , The Nation , Harper's Magazine , New York Magazine , Critical Inquiry , Dissent , The Times Literary Supplement , The Chronicle of Higher Education , Slate, and Bookforum .

Dickstein was Associate Editor of the Partisan Review from 1972 to 2003 and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Book Critics Circle . He is a member of the National Society of Film Critics , which awards the National Society of Film Critics Award, which, along with the Oscar, is one of the most important film awards in the USA. He is a member of the Development Committee of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers .

Fonts (selection)

  • Keats and His Poetry . A Study in Development. Univ. of Chicago Press 1971. ISBN 0-22614795-9
  • With Leo Brandy: Great Film Directors. A Critical Anthology. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press 1978.
  • Double agent. The Critic and Society. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press 1996. ISBN o-19-51137-0
  • Leopards in the Temple. The Transformation of American Fiction. 1945-1970. Harvard Univ. Press 2002. ISBN 978-0-674006041
  • Dancing in the Dark. A Cultural History of the Great Depression. New York: Norton 2009. ISBN 978-0-393-07225-9
  • Why Not Say What Happened. A Sentimental Education . New York: Liveright 2015. ISBN 0-87140431-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Center for the Humanities, Morris Dickstein.Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  2. ↑ Morris Dickstein, about accessed March 20, 2016.
  3. ↑ Eric Banks, "Critical Library: Morris Dickstein." Critical Mass: The Blog of the National Book Critics Circle Board of Directors. October 3, 2009. Retrieved October 1, 2014. [1]
  4. ^ Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, 2016.Retrieved March 20, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Dickstein, Morris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fellow, Senior; Humanities, Center for the
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American literary and cultural scholar, literary and film critic, and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1940