W. B. Carnochan (1930–2022)
Auteur de The Battleground of the Curriculum: Liberal Education and American Experience
A propos de l'auteur
W. B. Carnochan is the Richard W. Lyman Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at Stanford University and former Director of the Stanford Humanities Center.
Crédit image: Brigitte Carnochan
Œuvres de W. B. Carnochan
The Sad Story of Burton, Speke, and the Nile; or, Was John Hanning Speke a Cad: Looking at the Evidence (2006) 15 exemplaires
Confinement and Flight: An Essay on English Literature of the Eighteenth Century (1977) 4 exemplaires
Cultural Landscapes: Gilbert White and The Natural History of Selborne (1989) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Carnochan, W. Bliss
- Date de naissance
- 1930-12-20
- Date de décès
- 2022-01-24
- Sexe
- male
- Lieu de naissance
- New York City, New York, USA
- Études
- Harvard University
- Professions
- professor
- Organisations
- Stanford University
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Cultural Landscapes: Gilbert White and The Natural… par W. B. Carnochan
A publication to accompany the 1989 exhibition at Stanford celebrating the bicentennial of White's book. It includes an essay by Carnochan on "The Artfulness of Gilbert White," and the exhibition essay by Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook along with a checklist of items shown. Certainly one for the White completist.
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Until I read this book I had no idea that Burton and Speke have a following as keen, if not as numerous, as that of Holmes and Watson. The author of The Sad Story of Burton, Speke, and the Nile brings his skills as an emeritus professor of English to a "close reading" of the relevant texts, winding up with a "Concluding Unscientific Postscript" looking at the overlap of literary criticism and historiography. I think both Team Burton and Team Speke will find much that is original and thought-provoking here; it certainly renewed my interest in the primary texts.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 9
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 56
- Popularité
- #291,557
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 14