Leon Edel (1907–1997)
Autor de Henry James: A Life
Sobre El Autor
Joseph Leon Edel was born September 9, 1907 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received a master's degree in English from McGill University in Montreal in 1928 and a doctorate in literature from the University of Paris in 1932. In 1932, he was an assistant professor of English at Sir George Williams mostrar más University in Montreal. Between 1934 and 1943, he worked as a freelance writer and journalist and in broadcasting. During World War II, he served in the Army. He was a professor of English at New York University from 1953 to 1972 and at the University of Hawaii from 1972 to 1978. His five-volume biography of Henry James, published between 1953 and 1972, has been considered among the finest biographies by and about an American author. Two of the volumes won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1963. He also edited books on James's letters, plays, essays, criticism and stories and wrote introductions to new editions of James's novels. He also wrote critical biographies of Willa Cather and Henry David Thoreau, a book about the Bloomsbury circle entitled A House of Lions, and Wartime Memoir. He was the editor of four volumes of Edmund Wilson's papers. He died on September 5, 1997 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Photo by Walker Evans
Series
Obras de Leon Edel
Henry James - American Writers 4: University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers (1960) 8 copias
5 World Biographies: Michelangelo, Gandhi, Marie Curie, Napoleon, Julius Caesar — Editor — 2 copias
LITERARY HISTORY & LITERARY CRITICISM ACTA of the 9th Congress Intn'l Federation for Modern Languages & Literature (1964) 2 copias
THE HENRY JAMES READER. 1 copia
The Life of Henry James 1 1 copia
The Life of Henry James 2 1 copia
Henry James in Westminster Abbey 1 copia
Willa Cather, the paradox of success;: A lecture delivered under the auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry… (1960) 1 copia
The prefaces of Henry James 1 copia
Biography : the question of form 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Henry James and H.G. Wells: A record of their friendship, their debate on the art of fiction, and their quarrel (1958) — Editor — 12 copias
A Mirror for Modern Scholars: Essays in Methods of Research In Literature (1966) — Contribuidor — 11 copias
The Complete Tales of Henry James, vol. 11: 1900-1903 — Editor — 8 copias
The Complete Tales of Henry James, vol. 12: 1903-1910 — Editor — 4 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Edel, Joseph Leon
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1907-09-09
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1997-09-05
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada
Paris, France
Hawai'i, USA - Educación
- McGill University
Université de Paris - Ocupaciones
- biographer
literary critic - Relaciones
- Edel, Abraham (brother)
- Premios y honores
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1959)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1964)
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 53
- También por
- 49
- Miembros
- 1,768
- Popularidad
- #14,562
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 23
- ISBNs
- 66
- Idiomas
- 3
- Favorito
- 2
That said, despite the names and the changed landscape, Wilson at his best provokes interest and wonder in his notes. He takes great pains to describe the everyday natural world; there are detailed "word paintings" of the sky, clouds, sea, snow etc. This graphic representation of natural phenomena is at its best in the Southern California episode and on honeymoon in mid-winter Connecticut.
But mostly, this record covers the social world of cheap booze, speakeasies, the plight of the novice writer and the grinding ugliness of the New York and New Jersey environment in the twenties.
Wilson was early in his fictional stories explicit about sex. The accounts of his passionate sexual relationship with poor Anna, the beautiful, down-trodden Ukrainian waitress provide the basis for the story "The Princess with the Golden Hair", collected in "Memoirs of Hecate County".
Two quotes from Wilson:
Edmund Wilson was a grand critic - singular in his opinions and well-informed. I love his writing, because it reveals someone who derives his criticism by way of a seriously argued thesis.
"Literature is merely the result of rude collisions with reality, whose repercussions, when we have withdrawn into the shelter of ourselves, we try to explain, justify, harmonize, spin into an orderly pattern in the smooth resuming current of a thought..."
"Literature is a long process of neutralizing these shocks, mitigating the crude and barbarous, treachery, murder, unrequited love.... - the constant, never-forestalled outbreaks of our barbarous nature and the accidents of the internal maladjustments of our situation as a part of the universe - we lend them, in art, the logic of our reason and the harmony of our imagination - reason and imagination, like leucocytes accumulating themselves at the place where the infection...has occurred, they rush at once to the breach and, ingesting the alien elements, are discharged in the form of art-"… (más)