William Deresiewicz
Autor/a de A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
Sobre l'autor
William Deresiewicz was an associate professor of English at Yale University from 1998 to 2008. He is a contributing writer for The Nation and a contributing editor for The New Republic and The American Scholar. His work has also appeared in several publications including The New York Times, The mostra'n més Atlantic, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has won the Hiett Prize in the Humanities and the Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. He is the author of several books including A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter and Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Obres de William Deresiewicz
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter (2011) 666 exemplars
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life (2014) 464 exemplars
The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech (2020) 56 exemplars
El rebaño excelente: Cómo superar las carencias de la educación universitaria de élite (Educación y Pedagogía)… (2019) 3 exemplars
The American Scholar - Love on Campus 1 exemplars
Solitude and Leadership 1 exemplars
Human History Gets A Re-write 1 exemplars
What the Ivy League Won't Teach You 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1964
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Englewood, New Jersey, USA
- Llocs de residència
- New York, New York, USA
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Portland, Oregon, USA - Educació
- Columbia University (PhD)
- Professions
- professor
book reviewer
Literary critic - Organitzacions
- Yale University
- Premis i honors
- National Magazine Award. Nominee (2008)
National Magazine Award. Nominee (2009)
National Book Critics Circle. Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. Nominee (2010) - Agent
- Elyse Cheney
- Biografia breu
- William Deresiewicz was an associate professor of English at Yale University until 2008 and is a widely published literary critic. His reviews and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Nation, Bookforum, and The American Scholar. He was nominated for National Magazine Award in 2008 and 2009 and the National Book Critics Circle's Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing in 2010. [from A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter (2011)]
Membres
Converses
A Jane Austen Education a Tattered but still lovely (març 2015)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 13
- També de
- 2
- Membres
- 1,274
- Popularitat
- #20,133
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 62
- ISBN
- 29
- Llengües
- 2
- Preferit
- 1
P.S. Literary criticism is a wonderful genre and often a great intellectual exercise. But I sometimes wonder whether there are any authors out there who consciously think: "If I use this particular word in this particular way in this particular chapter, then my future readers and critics will know that this is a symbol of..."??? But even if critics sometimes go too far in their digging for hidden meanings, watching them dig is always entertaining ;-)… (més)