Roger Shattuck

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Roger Whitney Shattuck (born August 20, 1923 in New York , † December 8, 2005 in Lincoln , Vermont ) was an American literary scholar .

Shattuck graduated from Yale University and Harvard University . He has taught at the University of Texas and the Universities of Virginia and Dakar , Senegal . He was a co-founder of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers . In 1990 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

One of his most important works is the cultural-historical research into the Belle Epoque ( The Banquet Years ). His cultural history of taboos received great attention in Germany .

Works

  • The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I (1955)
  • Proust's Binoculars (1963)
  • Half Tame (1964)
  • Proust ( Fontana Modern Masters , 1974)
  • Marcel Proust (1975) [honored with the National Book Award 1975]
  • The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron (1980)
  • The Innocent Eye: On Modern Literature & the Arts (1984)
  • Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography (1994)
  • Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the Arts (1998)
  • Proust's Way: A Field Guide to 'In Search of Lost Time (2000)
  • Au sueil de la 'Pataphysique: Definitions in 7 languages ​​(Edition du Collège de' Pataphysique, Paris 1963)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the reviews of Harald Weinrich : We are not safe behind our dyke either. Roger Shattuck builds dams of knowledge. In: FAZ, November 14, 2000; Alain Claude Sulzer : If you don't ask, you stay healthy . In: Die Welt, January 20, 2001.
    Thomas Gross: Poison cabinet of progress. In: Rhine. Merkur No. 3/2001, p. 8

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personal data
SURNAME Shattuck, Roger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shattuck, Roger Whitney
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH new York
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 2005
Place of death Lincoln , Vermont