David K. Danow

Background

David Danow was born on August 30, 1944 in New York, United States.

Education

Danow graduated from the University of Rochester with a B.A. degree in 1966. In 1977 he gained a Ph.D. degree from Brown University.

Career

David worked as a professor of Russian and comparative literature at the University of California, Riverside.

Achievements

• David Danow is known for his books "The Spirit of Carnival: Magical Realism and the Grotesque", "Models of Narrative: Theory and Practice", and some others. He was also a fulbright scholar at St. Petersburg, Russia in 1975-1976.

Works

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  • The Spirit of Carnival: Magical Realism and the Grotesque
  • The Thought of Mikhail Bakhtin: From Word to Culture
  • Models of Narrative: Theory and Practice
  • The Dialogic Sign: Essays on the Major Novels of Dostoevsky (Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature)
  • Transformation As the Principle of Literary Creation from the Homeric Epic to the Joycean Novel (Studies in Comparative Literature)

Interests

• Travel