Background
Fanger, Donald Lee was born on December 6, 1929 in Cleveland. Son of Max Leon and Rae (Bercu) Fanger.
(Dostoevsky and Romantic Realism is Donald Fanger's ground...)
Dostoevsky and Romantic Realism is Donald Fanger's groundbreaking study of the art of Dostoevsky and the literary and historical context in which it was created. Through detailed analyses of the work of Balzac, Dickens, and Gogol, Fanger identifies romantic realism, the transformative fusion of two generic categories, as a powerful imaginary response to the great modern city. This fusion reaches its aesthetic and metaphysical climax in Dostoevsky, whose vision -- culminating in Crime and Punishment -- is seen by Fanger as the final synthesis of romantic realism. Caryl Emerson provides a foreword to the paperback edition.
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( Nikolai Gogol, Russia's greatest comic writer, is a li...)
Nikolai Gogol, Russia's greatest comic writer, is a literary enigma. His masterworks--"The Nose," "The Overcoat," The Inspector General, Dead Souls--have attracted contradictory labels over the years, even as the originality of his achievement continues to defy exact explanation. Donald Fanger's superb new book begins by considering why this should be so, and goes onto survey what Gogol created, step by step: an extraordinary body of writing, a model for the writer in Russian society, a textual identity that eclipses his scanty biography, and a kind of fiction unique in its time. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary sources, as well as on everything Gogol wrote, including journal articles, letters, drafts, and variants, Fanger explains Gogol's eccentric genius and makes clear how it opened the way to the great age of Russian fiction. The method is an innovative mixture of literary history and literary sociology with textual criticism and structural interrogation. What emerges is not only a framework for understanding Gogol's writing as a whole, but fresh and original interpretation of individual works. A concluding section, "The Surviving Presence," probes the fundamental nature of Gogol's creation to explain its astonishing vitality. In the process a major contribution is made to our understanding of comedy, irony, and satire, and ultimately to the theory of fiction itself.
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( Dostoevsky and Romantic Realism is Donald Fanger's grou...)
Dostoevsky and Romantic Realism is Donald Fanger's groundbreaking study of the art of Dostoevsky and the literary and historical context in which it was created. Through detailed analyses of the work of Balzac, Dickens, and Gogol, Fanger identifies romantic realism, the transformative fusion of two generic categories, as a powerful imaginary response to the great modern city. This fusion reaches its aesthetic and metaphysical climax in Dostoevsky, whose vision culminating in Crime and Punishment is seen by Fanger as the final synthesis of romantic realism.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/081011593X/?tag=2022091-20
Slavic language and literature educator
Fanger, Donald Lee was born on December 6, 1929 in Cleveland. Son of Max Leon and Rae (Bercu) Fanger.
Bachelor, University of California, Berkeley, 1951; Master of Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1954; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1962.
Member of faculty, Brown U., 1960-1966; associate professor Slavic languages and literature, Brown U., 1964-1966; associate professor Slavic languages, director division, Stanford University, 1966-1968; professor Slavic and comparative literature, Harvard University, 1968-1998; department chairman Slavic langs and literature, Harvard University, 1973-1982; Harry Levin research professor literature, Harvard University, since 1998. Member board syndics Harvard University Press, 1968-1973.
(Offers a new and detailed analysis of the development of ...)
(Dostoevsky and Romantic Realism is Donald Fanger's ground...)
( Dostoevsky and Romantic Realism is Donald Fanger's grou...)
( Nikolai Gogol, Russia's greatest comic writer, is a li...)
( Nikolai Gogol, Russia's greatest comic writer, is a li...)
Member program committee International Research and Exchanges Board, 1968-1969, 70-73. With Army of the United States, 1953-1955. Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, Academy Literature Studies, International Comparative Literature Association.
Married Margot Taylor, June 18, 1955. Children: Steffen, Ross, Katharine. Married Leonie Jean Gordon, December 6, 2005.