Paul Fussell (1924–2012)
Auteur de The Great War and Modern Memory
A propos de l'auteur
Paul Fussell Jr. was born in Pasadena, California on March 22, 1924. He was drafted into the Army in 1943 while attending Pomona College. During his tour of duty, he won the Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts. He returned to college in 1945. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Pomona College afficher plus in 1947 and a master's degree and a doctorate in English from Harvard University. He taught English at Connecticut College for Women, Rutgers University, and the University of Pennsylvania. During this time he wrote several books on literary topics including The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism: Ethics and Imagery from Swift to Burke, Poetic Meter and Poetic Form, and Samuel Johnson and the Life of Writing. In 1975, he published The Great War and Modern Memory, which was a study of World War I and how its horrors fostered a disillusioned modernist sensibility. This book won both the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and the National Book Award for Arts and Letters. His other works include Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars, Class: A Guide Through the American Status System, Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War, BAD: Or, the Dumbing of America, and Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic. He died of natural causes on May 23, 2012 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Paul Fussell
A la guerre (Psychologie et comportements pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale) (1989) 694 exemplaires
The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism: Ethics and Imagery from Swift to Burke (1965) 24 exemplaires
English Augustan poetry 12 exemplaires
The nature of meter 1 exemplaire
Popular Culture in the 1930s 1 exemplaire
The Norton Book of Travel 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Siegried Sassoon's Long Journey: Selections from the Sherston Memoirs (1983) — Directeur de publication — 24 exemplaires
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1989 (1989) — Author "From Light to Heavy Duty" — 17 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Fussell, Paul, Jr
- Date de naissance
- 1924-03-22
- Date de décès
- 2012-05-23
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Pasadena, California, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Medford, Oregon, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Oregon, USA
Princeton, New Jersey, USA - Études
- Pomona College (BA)
Harvard University (MA|1949)
Harvard University (PhD|1952) - Professions
- historian
essayist
editor
professor
literary critic - Relations
- Fussell, Edwin (brother)
Fussell, Rosalind (daughter)
Fussell, Sam (son)
Fussell, Betty (wife, divorced)
Behringer, Harriette (wife) - Organisations
- United States Army (WWII)
Modern Language Association of America
Academy of Literary Studies
Society of American Historians
English Institute
University of Pennsylvania - Prix et distinctions
- Purple Heart
Bronze Star
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award ( [1980])
Lindback Foundation Award (1971)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1973-74)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1977)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 27
- Aussi par
- 15
- Membres
- 6,709
- Popularité
- #3,650
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 95
- ISBN
- 98
- Langues
- 6
- Favoris
- 16