Paul Fussell

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Paul Fussell (1945)

Paul Fussell (born March 22, 1924 in Pasadena , California , † May 23, 2012 in Medford , Oregon ) was an American literary and cultural scholar. He started out as a specialist in 18th century English literature , but is best known for his 1975 work The Great War and Modern Memory , a classic study of the trauma that World War I left in the collective consciousness of an entire generation. Most recently he taught English literature at the University of Pennsylvania .

Life

Fussell was drafted into the US Army in 1943 at the age of 19 . In October 1944 he reached France as a lieutenant with the 103rd US Infantry Division , where he was wounded in combat. Fussell's war experience shaped him: he suffered from depression and anger for years afterwards, and his rejection of the romanticization of the military and the war shaped a number of his books.

He graduated from Pomona College with a bachelor's degree and received his PhD from Harvard University . As a lecturer and professor, he has taught at Connecticut College , Rutgers University , Heidelberg University , King's College London and the University of Pennsylvania . He retired in the mid-1990s.

His 1975 book The Great War and Modern Memory won the National Book Award , the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

2006 Paul Fussell reported in historical documentation The War (too dt . The war ) by Ken Burns about his war experiences.

Works

  • Poetic Meter and Poetic Form . 1965.
  • The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism: Ethics and Imagery from Swift to Burke . 1965.
  • Theory of Prosody in Eighteenth-Century England . 1966.
  • Samuel Johnson and The Life of Writing . 1971.
  • English Augustan Poetry . 1972.
  • The Great War and Modern Memory . Oxford University Press, New York 1975.
  • Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars . Oxford University Press, New York 1980.
  • The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations . Oxford University Press, New York 1982.
  • Class: A Guide Through the American Status System . Summit Books 1983. (Published in German as Cashmere, Cocktail, Cadillac - a guide through the American status system. Steidl, Göttingen 1997.)
  • Caste Marks: Style and Status in the USA . Heinemann 1984.
  • Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays . Summit Books 1988.
  • Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War . Oxford University Press, New York 1989.
  • BAD - or, The Dumbing of America . Summit Books 1991.
  • The Anti-Egotist: Kingsley Amis, Man of Letters . Oxford University Press, New York 1994.
  • Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic . Little Brown & Company, New York 1996. (autobiography)
  • Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wear . Houghton Mifflin 2002.
  • The Boys' Crusade - The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945. Modern Library 2003.

literature

  • Paul Fussell. In: Horst-Jürgen Gerigk: The trace of finitude. My academic teachers. Four portraits: Dmitrij Tschižewskij, Hans Georg-Gadamer, René Wellek, Paul Fussell. Winter, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8253-5335-3 , pp. 51-62, 76/77, 89/90.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Fussell: Doing Battle - The Making of a Skeptic . Little Brown & Company, New York 1996. (autobiography)
  2. ↑ So z. B. The Great War and Modern Memory (1975) and Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War (1989).
personal data
SURNAME Fussell, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cultural historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Pasadena, California
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 2012
Place of death Medford, Oregon