Background
Lyons, Bridget Gellert was born on August 28, 1932 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Came to the United States, 1940. Daughter of Leopold and Marianne (Petschek) Gellert.
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At a time when theory seems to dominate academic thought, how can "close reading" justify itself as a cogent and sophisticated interpretive strategy? In Reading in an Age of Theory, twelve distinguished scholars discuss the relationship of theory to reading, an important topic for both teachers and students of literature. Focusing on the work of Richard Poirier, one of the most influential propone...
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“Packed with solid information and penetrating criticism . . . with often brilliant analyses of individual works.” —Hubert M. English, Jr., University of Michigan This book begins with a background on expository books about melancholy in the Renaissance with chapters on the literary uses of melancholy, Marston and melancholy, Melancholy and Hamlet, and the anatomy of melancholy as literature. When Shakespeare, Burton and other Renaissance writers gave melancholy the complex meanings and associations it has in their work, they were drawing on a tradition that had been developing throughout classical antiquity and the Middle Ages, and whose diverse origins made it an especially fruitful subject for literature.
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Lyons, Bridget Gellert was born on August 28, 1932 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Came to the United States, 1940. Daughter of Leopold and Marianne (Petschek) Gellert.
Bachelor, Radcliffe College, 1954. Master of Arts, Oxford University, 1956. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1967.
Instructor Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1965-1967, 1967-1971, associate professor, 1971-1978, chairman department English, 1979-1981, director graduate program in English, 1981-1990, professor, 1978—2003, professor emeritus, since 2003.
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Member Renaissance Society of America (executive board 1978–2000).
Married Robert B. Lyons, February 6, 1971.