Carl Van Doren (1885–1950)
Autor de Benjamin Franklin
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Carl Van Doren
Mutiny in January: The story of a Crisis in the Continental Army now for the first time fully told from many hitherto… (1943) 13 copias
Jane Mecom, the favorite sister of Benjamin Franklin: her life here first fully narrated from their entire surviving… (1950) 13 copias
The Three Readers: Clifton Fadiman, Sinclair Lewis, Carl Van Doren (1943) — Editor; Contribuidor — 8 copias
Swift 7 copias
Cato's moral distichs 3 copias
A Short History of American Literature Based on The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield… (1923) — Editor — 3 copias
Four Plays by Ibsen: Hedda Gabler; An Enemy of the People; The Lady from the Sea; The Wild Duck (1960) 2 copias
Benjamin Franklin, Volume 3 2 copias
Irony in Velvet [article] 1 copia
Nous, peuple des États-Unis 1 copia
Seven Stories by Hawthorne 1 copia
An Illinois boyhood 1 copia
Meet Dr. Franklin 1 copia
Letters From Carl; a First Selection From the More Intimate Letters Written to His Friends By Carl Van Doren (1951) 1 copia
The Tortable Swift 1 copia
Benjamin Franklin (abridged) 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Autobiografia de Benjamin Franklin: La vida de un hombre ejemplar (1791) — Introducción, algunas ediciones — 7,329 copias
5 Plays: Clouds / Wasps / Birds / Lysistrata / Frogs (1955) — Introducción, algunas ediciones — 258 copias
Gulliver's Travels / A Tale of a Tub / The Battle of the Books (1704) — Introducción, algunas ediciones — 111 copias
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present (1959) — Contribuidor — 55 copias
Rifleman Dodd and The Gun: Two Novels of the Peninsular Wars (1932) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones — 47 copias
I hear America singing;: An anthology of folk poetry, (1937) — algunas ediciones; Introducción, algunas ediciones — 15 copias
An Enemy of the People / The Wild Duck / Hedda Gabler / The Lady From the Sea (1950) — Introducción — 15 copias
The Letters of Benjamin Franklin & Jane Mecom, (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society) (1950) — Editor — 14 copias
Twentieth-Century American Literature (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1986) — Contribuidor — 13 copias
Wings, Vol. 6, No. 2, February 1932 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Van Doren, Carl Clinton
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1885-09-10
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1950-07-18
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Hope, Illinois, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Torrington, Connecticut, USA
- Educación
- Columbia University (PhD, 1911)
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Ocupaciones
- novelist
teacher
editor
biographer
critic - Relaciones
- Van Doren, Mark (brother)
Van Doren, Charles (nephew) - Organizaciones
- Columbia University
The Nation
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1944) - Premios y honores
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography (1939)
Miembros
Reseñas
Secret History Of The American Revolution. por Carl Van Doren
1st edition, signed, 260/590
3312. Benjamin Franklin, by Carl Van Doren (read May 20, 2000) This won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and when I noticed it at our public library I thought I would read it. It has aged well, and is very well done. Franklin was a great man and had an interesting life. Of the 83 winners of the Pulitzer Prize for biography I have now read 49. Without concentrating on reading the others I will never get all of them read--and I will not devote all my time to getting them all read.
Carl Van Doren does what most of us do who read and admire Cabell: write about Cabell in Cabellian style. The opening gambit shows as much:
"There are more arguments to prove that James Branch Cabell is a legend than to prove that he is a fact."
But Van Doren is no mere epigone. He's gone all the way into literary criticism, and can focus in on the crucial truth:
"Mr. Cabell is the most humorous of mythologists. Out of what might seem pedantry if there were less gusto in it, or ignorance if there were less method, he has inextricably jumbled all the mythologies as well as all the histories and geographies. nor has he hesitated to invent with a large hand. The result is that he crowds his pages with symbols which may be brilliantly suggestive and which may be merely mystification. But Mr. cabell no more minds irritating than he minds mystifying. he works under cove, always by the method of indirection. . . . Allegory lurks where no one has any reason to suspect it; allegory is also sometimes absent from passages wherein by all precedent it ought to be. What reader, in such circumstances, can be quite sure that Mr. Cabell is not having sport with him?"
Exactly. This is a necessary little book for those who love Cabell. And, perhaps, even for those who are offended at being made sport of.… (más)
"There are more arguments to prove that James Branch Cabell is a legend than to prove that he is a fact."
But Van Doren is no mere epigone. He's gone all the way into literary criticism, and can focus in on the crucial truth:
"Mr. Cabell is the most humorous of mythologists. Out of what might seem pedantry if there were less gusto in it, or ignorance if there were less method, he has inextricably jumbled all the mythologies as well as all the histories and geographies. nor has he hesitated to invent with a large hand. The result is that he crowds his pages with symbols which may be brilliantly suggestive and which may be merely mystification. But Mr. cabell no more minds irritating than he minds mystifying. he works under cove, always by the method of indirection. . . . Allegory lurks where no one has any reason to suspect it; allegory is also sometimes absent from passages wherein by all precedent it ought to be. What reader, in such circumstances, can be quite sure that Mr. Cabell is not having sport with him?"
Exactly. This is a necessary little book for those who love Cabell. And, perhaps, even for those who are offended at being made sport of.… (más)
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