Sylvan Barnet (1926–2016)
Auteur de A Short Guide to Writing About Art
A propos de l'auteur
Sylvan Saul Barnet was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 11, 1926. During World War II, he served in the Army for two years. He received a bachelor's degree in English from New York University in 1948 and a master's degree in 1950 and a doctorate in 1954 from Harvard University. For the next afficher plus three decades, he taught freshman writing and literature at Tufts University. He wrote or edited numerous textbooks including An Introduction to Literature, A Short Guide to Writing About Literature, A Short Guide to Writing About Art, The Study of Literature: A Handbook of Critical Essays and Terms, and Critical Thinking, Reading and Writing: A Brief Guide to Argument. In the early 1960s, he decided that his students at Tufts University needed an edition of Shakespeare with each play in a separate volume including an introduction and study aids. He presented the idea to editors at the New American Library. The editors approved of the idea and Barnet became the general editor of the Signet Classic Shakespeare series. He was the co-author with William Burto of Zen Ink Paintings, which was published in 1982. He died of cancer on January 11, 2016 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Sylvan Barnet
Current Issues and Enduring Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking and Argument with Readings (1987) 334 exemplaires
Comparing Cultures: Readings on Contemporary Japan for American Writers (1995) — Directeur de publication — 24 exemplaires
Nine modern classics; an anthology of short novels (1973) — Directeur de publication — 19 exemplaires
Twentieth century interpretations of the Merchant of Venice: a collection of critical essays (1970) 9 exemplaires
Instructor's Manual to Accompany Literature for Composition Essays, Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (2003) 4 exemplaires
Instructor's Manual to accompany Literature: Thinking, Reading, and Writing Critically (1997) 1 exemplaire
Instructor's Handbook to Accompany Literature for Composition Essays, Stories, Poems, and Plays 1 exemplaire
Instructor's manual to accompany Barnet & Stubb's Practical guide to writing, third edition and third edition with… (1980) 1 exemplaire
Instructor's Handbook to Accompany Literature for Composition Essays, Fiction, Poetry and Drama 5th Edition (1999) 1 exemplaire
An Introduction to Fiction 1 exemplaire
William Shakespare The tragedy of Macbeth 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Illustrated Stratford Shakespeare (1589) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 31,820 exemplaires
Le Marchand de Venise (bilingue) (1600) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 11,443 exemplaires
Le docteur faust (doctor faustus) (1994) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 5,076 exemplaires
Œuvres complètes : La famille 1 : Coriolan (1623) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 2,792 exemplaires
4 Plays: Hamlet; King Lear; Macbeth; Othello (1982) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions; Introduction, quelques éditions — 1,114 exemplaires
Wilde Oscar : Importance of Being Earnest (Sc) (1898) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 708 exemplaires
2 Plays: Henry VIII; King John (1986) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 141 exemplaires
3 Plays: Cymbeline; Pericles; The Two Noble Kinsman (1986) — Directeur de publication — 114 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1926-12-11
- Date de décès
- 2016-01-11
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Cause du décès
- brain cancer
- Lieux de résidence
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Études
- Harvard University (Ph.D.)
New York University
Erasmus Hall High School - Professions
- literary critic
Shakespearean scholar
professor (English) - Relations
- Burto, William (life partner)
- Organisations
- Tufts University
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Critiques
Eight Great Tragedies: The Complete Texts of the… par Morton Berman
A superb collection of tragedies with selected commentaries that augment the texts. While there are specific editions that offer superior texts for reading and analyzing individual plays, this is helpful for reading and debating a range of tragedies.
Genius might be a bit...strong...for a number of these plays. They are standard issue morality plays from the early English theatre, and many of them are rather tedious. There are some truly great works in here, such as MacBeth and Marlowe's Faust. Jonson's Volpone completes the trifecta of worthy plays. I'm afraid Milton's Samson Agonistes left me cold. It probably reads better as poetry than as a play, but even then, it was too repetitive, and way too much logorrhea.
A drama text book so the essays were a little dry, but a good broad collection of plays spanning the centuries.
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- Œuvres
- 45
- Aussi par
- 19
- Membres
- 4,229
- Popularité
- #5,939
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 16
- ISBN
- 235