Meyer Howard Abrams ( Meyer Howard “Mike” Abrams , MH Abrams; July 23, 1912 , Long Branch, NJ - April 21, 2015 , Ithaca , New York [5] ) - American historian and literary theorist Specialist in the study of English romanticism . EMERIT Professor of Cornell University , member of the American Philosophical Society (1973). He was awarded the National Humanitarian Medal (2014). Abrams’s most significant books are Mirror and Lamp and Natural Supernatural.
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| Scientific field | history of literature |
| Place of work | Cornell University |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Academic degree | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) |
| Academic rank | Professor |
| supervisor | Ivor Armstrong Richards |
| Famous students | Harold Bloom |
| Known as | researcher of English romanticism |
| Awards and prizes | Guggenheim Fellowship United States National Humanitarian Medal ( 2013 ) [d] |
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Biography
Born into a family of Jewish immigrants from Grodno , painter Joseph and Sarah Chanes. Graduated from Harvard (1934). In 1934-1935 he studied in Cambridge , where Ivor Armstrong Richards was his mentor. In 1940 he received a Ph.D. from Harvard. During the Second World War he worked in his psycho-acoustic laboratory. Since 1945, a lecturer at Cornell University , a full professor since 1953, since 1960 a professor ( Whiton Professor of English ), since 1983 he has been emiri. Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1963). Award in Humanistic Studies from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Distinguished Scholar Award from the Keats-Shelley Society, Award for Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
Proceedings
The most famous book of Abrams is Mirror and Lamp: Romantic Theory and Critical Tradition (1953), in which he thoroughly shows the transition in the self-consciousness of authors and critics of the period of romanticism from the metaphor of creativity as a mirror ( mimetic theory ) to the image of creativity as a lamp (expressive theory), influence this transition to the language of literary criticism, history and theory of literature. She is ranked 25th in the . Abrams was awarded the from the MLA for calling his other most significant book, Natural Supernatural, with her.
The six-volume Norton Anthology of English Literature (The First Norton Anthology of English Literature, first edition - 1962), repeatedly edited by M. Abrams, has exemplary significance for the formation of canonical ideas about national literature.
Publications
- Mirror and lamp: romantic theory and critical tradition The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition ( 1953 ) ISBN 978-0-19-501471-6
- Glossary of Literary Terms A Glossary of Literary Terms ( 1958 ; 7th ed. 1999 ) ISBN 978-0-15-505452-3
- English Romantic Poets: Modern Criticism English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays In Criticism ( 1960 ) ISBN 978-0-19-501946-9
- Mammary Paradise: The Effect of Opium Visions on the Works of DeQuincey, Crabbe, Francis Thompson, and Coleridge ( 1970 ) ISBN 978-0-374-90028 -one
- Natural Supernatural: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature ( 1971 ) ISBN 978-0-393-04305-1
- Fair Wind: Essays on English Romanticism The Correspondent Breeze: Essays on English Romanticism ( 1984 ) ISBN 978-0-393-30340-7
- Creating Things with Texts: Essays in Criticism and Critical Theory ( 1989 ) ISBN 978-0-393-02713-6
Notes
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ 1 2 Solomon Guggenheim Museum - 1937.
- ↑ LIBRIS - 2012.
- ↑ MH Abrams, 102, Dies; Shaped Romantic Criticism and Literary 'Bible' - The New York Times
Literature
- High romantic argument: essays for MH Abrams / Lawrence Lipking, ed. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1981