Education
Fowler was educated at the University of Edinburgh, Master of Arts As a graduate student at Oxford, Fowler studied with C. South. Lewis, and later edited Lewis"s Spenser"s Images of Life.
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Why do authors use pseudonyms and pen-names, or ingeniously hide names in their work with acrostics and anagrams? How has the range of permissible given names changed and how is this reflected in literature? Why do some characters remain mysteriously nameless? In this rich and learned book, Alastair Fowler explores the use of names in literature of all periods - primarily English but also Latin, Greek, French, and Italian - casting an unusual and rewarding light on the work of literature itself. He traces the history of names through Homer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Thackeray, Dickens, Joyce, and Nabokov, showing how names often turn out to be the thematic focus. Fowler shows that the associations of names, at first limited, become increasingly salient and sophisticated as literature itself develops.
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Fowler was educated at the University of Edinburgh, Master of Arts As a graduate student at Oxford, Fowler studied with C. South. Lewis, and later edited Lewis"s Spenser"s Images of Life.
. He was subsequently awarded an Master of Arts (1955), Doctorate.Phil (1957) and Doctorate.Litt (1962) from Oxford. Fowler was junior research fellow at Queen"s College, Oxford (1955-1959). He also taught at Swansea (1959-1961), and Brasenose College, Oxford (1962-1971).
He was Regius Professor of literature at the University of Edinburgh (1972-1984) and also taught intermittently at universities in the United States, including Columbia (1964) and the University of Virginia (1969, 1979, 1985-1998).
Fowler is known for his editorial work. His edition of John Milton"s Paradise Lost, part of the Longman poets series, has some of the most scholarly and detailed notes on the poem and is widely cited by Milton scholars.
Writing in The Guardian, John Mullan called it "a monument of scholarship."
His book Kinds of Literature is a pioneering study in the field of genre scholarship. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to literature and education.
Fowler"s papers are on deposit at the National Library of Scotland.
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Fowler has been critical of some recent trends in literary scholarship, including "new historicism." In 2005, he published an extremely critical review of Stephen Greenblatt"s Will in the World, which was widely discussed.