Paul Fussell
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
- Quotes from Fussell on Wikiquote
- Literature by and about Paul Fussell in the catalog of the German National Library
- Profile about Fussell in the Guardian
- The Fate of Chivalry and the Assault Upon Mother ( Memento from December 25, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) from Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays. (English)
- Paul Fussell, Literary Scholar and Critic, Is Dead at 88. In: New York Times, May 23, 2012
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Fussell: Doing Battle - The Making of a Skeptic . Little Brown & Company, New York 1996. (autobiography)
- ↑ So z. B. The Great War and Modern Memory (1975) and Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War (1989).
personal data | |
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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 |