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Will, Frederic was born on December 4, 1928 in New Haven. Son of Samuel F. and Constance B. Will.
(This volume is a study in Classical literature. The first...)
This volume is a study in Classical literature. The first section deals with the birth of language and literature from consciousness, and the formation of literary history. It explores Husserl's mapping of the origins of language, and subsequent language theories in Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and Heidegger. The second section traces privileged Homeric shelters such as the bowers off the battle-line in the "Iliad" and hidden islands like Ogygia in the "Odyssey". It tracks that same language-sheltering into several Biblical wombs - Sarai's, Mary's or Jonah's whales, and turns from these to language shelters constructed by Sappho for her passion, Saint Paul for inner salvation, and by the creator of the "Bhagavad Gita".
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(This work contains 17 interviews with workers of varying ...)
This work contains 17 interviews with workers of varying backgrounds, gender, race, and financial levels. They work in cornfields, brass works, hog barns, jukebox truckstops and university conference rooms. Anthropology is blended with social critique and occasional lyric-meditative outbursts.
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(This book is based on a Field Research in an Agricultural...)
This book is based on a Field Research in an Agricultural Communities in Chiapas, Quebec, And Iowa. It is both an Academic and a heartwarming study of Social and Human Factors. The following book is a set of three interlocking personal memoirs, based on three interview trips into agricultural communities in North America. We report our experience directly in the fashion of what might be called agricultural journalism. The ideal reader for this book would be the old general reader, a literate armchair farmer, or an undergraduate student in one of the broad courses where our time gets learned - Ecology, Environment, International Relations, Agriculture and Technology, Rural Sociology, Technology and Social Transition. While we write for such a learning but still unspecialized audience, are ourselves part of that audience, and allow ourselves many of the pleasures of journalism, we are aware of the perils surrounding the act of journalism. As academics we are aware of the depths of history and cultural setting that underlie every experienced moment. Thus not only do we report the present, and try to retain its life, but we try to intimate the past, and through footnotes and asides to refer problems out into that past and its context, to keep before ourselves and our readers the dependence of the human present on all that has made it. We are deeply grateful to the individuals whose generosity helped make this inquiry possible. Foremost among these welcoming friends is Don Antonio Fernandez Torres, in Tapachula, Mexico, the owner of Asake plantation. He it was who invited us to be his guests for a memorable visit in the winter of 1996, and who helped us to understand what a Mexican banana plantation is - and what Mexican hospitality is. Immediately after Don Antonio, though we met him only late in the game, must come Claude Marchand, Conseiller en Gestion for the Bois Franc Region of Quebec. He it was who planned out and gave coherence to our interviewing in Quebec Province. Then come, but in no special order, the many farmers and farm related workers, in Chiapas, Iowa, and Quebec, who have informed us, told us about their lives and work, and made us realize what city slickers - and privileged middle-classers - we are. We have tended, by the nature our own circumstances, to address farmers of more than average wealth and success, but remain aware of what a large unvoiced constituency lay before us, the kinds of people Oscar Lewis once gave voice to in his Children of Sanchez. The reference desk swat team, at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, have proved to be indispensable, our sources of info and even brain power more often than I like to think. Our wives, Julie and Jill, have baked the pies and kept the kitchen warm, while providing the necessary spurs and provocations. For all this joy and pain we're fittingly grateful.
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(This is a collection of brief travel snapshots, from whic...)
This is a collection of brief travel snapshots, from which fundamental registers of human experience are drawn: senses of violence (evoked by the pounding sea off Cabo San Lucas); coziness (Greek buses, Quebec cafes); desolation and despair (Auschwitz); despondence (Belize); the power of history (Mayan Corozal in Northern Belize); and purity in nature (Zion National Park). The events and perceptions recorded here date from 1957 to 1990, and yet the temporal factor constantly collapses, to let forth from within it a single sense: of the always meaningful fabric of place, and the wonder all places exude, the scent by which they trap us.
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Will, Frederic was born on December 4, 1928 in New Haven. Son of Samuel F. and Constance B. Will.
Bachelor, Indiana University, 1948. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1954.
Assistant professor classics Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1952-1954, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 1955-1960. Professor classics University Texas, Austin, 1960-1965. Professor comparative literature University Iowa, Iowa City, 1965-1970, fellow Institute Advanced Studies, 1985-1992.
Professor comparative literature University Massachusetts, Amherst, 1971-1984. President Mellen University, Mount Vernon, Iowa, 1995—2000. Professor American studies University Ivory Coast, 2000—2002.
Visiting professor classics Cornell College, Iowa, 2002. Visiting professor Hunan Normal University, China, 2003. Professor University Robert de Boron, France, since 2004.
Visiting professor Deep Springs College, California, 2003—2006.
(This is a collection of brief travel snapshots, from whic...)
(This work contains 17 interviews with workers of varying ...)
(This book is based on a Field Research in an Agricultural...)
(Format Hardcover Subject Language Arts Disciplines)
(This volume is a study in Classical literature. The first...)
(His third book of poetry. One of 500 copies. Number one i...)
Married Julie Omotejohwo, July 27, 1995. Children: Barbara, Alex, Jennifer, Chris, Carson, Kyle.