Eugene Paul Nassar

Background

Nassar, Eugene Paul was born on June 20, 1935 in Utica, New York, United States. Son of Michael Joseph and Mintaha (Kassouf) Nassar.

Education

Bachelor, Kenyon College, 1957; Master of Arts in English Language and Literature, Worcester College, University of Oxford, 1960; Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell Univercity, 1962.

Career

He has long studies of the figural images in Wallace Stevens, the lyric passages in The Cantos of Ezra Pound, and of Hart Crane’s The Bridge, along with numerous essays in criticism of poems, drama and fiction. He has also an anthology of the illustrations to Dante’s “Inferno,” various essays in sociological criticism, essays and reviews in many journals, and he has edited several books He has held the Rhodes Scholarship and a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

A memoir of growing up in a Lebanese Christian family in the Italian-American neighborhood of East Utica, New York, is entitled Wind of the Land.

His Papers, which include many items—such as notices and reviews of his work—not available elsewhere, are housed in the Archives of Utica College.

Achievements

• Eugene Paul Nassar has been listed as a noteworthy Humanities educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Wind of the Land: Two Prose Poems

    (In this collection of two prose poems, Eugene Nassar prov...)

  • Essays Critical and Metacritical

    (Through critical discussion of works by Lawrence, James, ...)

  • A Walk Around the Block: Literary Texts and Social Contexts

    (In this collection of essays, the author draws on his own...)

  • Selections from a prose poem: East Utica

    (A fine copy in a fine slip case. First edition. Cloth. Sm...)

  • East Utica: Selections from a Prose Poem
  • The rape of Cinderella: Essays in literary continuity
  • Wallace Stevens: An Anatomy of Figuration.

Connections

Married Karen L. Nocian, December 30, 1969. Children: Anne, Laura, Paul.

Father:

Michael Joseph Nassar

Mother:

Mintaha (Kassouf) Nassar

Spouse:

Karen L. Nocian

child:

Laura Nassar

child:

Paul Nassar

child:

Anne Nassar