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Bornstein, George Jay was born on August 25, 1941 in St. Louis. Son of Harry and Celia (Price) Bornstein.
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Transformations of Romanticism in Yeats, Eliot, and Stevens
(Killing hundreds and leaving a city in ruins, the San Fra...)
Killing hundreds and leaving a city in ruins, the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 stands as one of the greatest natural disasters in American history. But the aftermath of the quake—the fires that raged across the city for days and claimed the lives of thousands more—was an all too human disaster whose story has remained largely untold. Until now. Employing the same vivid prose and storytelling skill that made his Report from Ground Zero a national bestseller, Dennis Smith reconstructs those harrowing days from the perspective of the people who lived through them. Smith draws on hundreds of individual accounts and official documents to unearth the true story of the fires—from the corrupt officials who left the city woefully unprepared for disaster, to the militia officers who enforced martial law with deadly force, to the individual heroes who battled the blaze and saved untold lives. San Francisco Is Burning is a thrilling disaster tale that brings a lost chapter of history back to riveting life.
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Poetic Remaking: The Art of Browning, Yeats, and Pound
(This volume offers a coherent view of post-romantic poeti...)
This volume offers a coherent view of post-romantic poetic development through selective examples both of individual poems and of poetic influence. Bornstein focuses most centrally on Browning in the Victorian period and Yeats and Pound in the Modern, but also looks more briefly at works by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Arnold, Tennyson, and Eliot. The introductory manifesto, "Four Gaps in Postromantic Influence Study," posits four new orientations for such work: taking the volume (rather than the individual poem) as unit; stressing more centrally the Victorian mediation between Romantic and Modern; allowing for national differences among English, Irish and American traditions; and basing influence studies as much on manuscript materials as on finished products. Each of the following chapters follows one or more of those orientations.The initial four chapters, "Remaking Poetry," focus on readings of specific poetic texts. The first treats Browning's first major volume as a unit; the second reads his dramatic monologue "Pictor Ignotus" against Romantic acts of mind; the third maps distinctively Victorian variations in the major form known as Greater Romantic Lyric; and the fourth explores Yeat's mature revision of that form. The second group of four chapters, "Remaking Poets," stresses the dynamics of literary influence by which poets turn their forerunners into figures helpful to their own development. The first three examine Yeat's encounter with Dante, Spenser, and Browning, and Tennyson, respectively; the fourth treats Pound's remaking of the poet he called his poetic "father," Browning, in a way that suggests the limits of anxiety models of poetic influence.For this volume Professor Bornstein has revised and expanded a select group of his recent essays and added a new one, on the Greater Victorian Lyric.
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George Jay Bornstein
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George Jay Bornstein, American Literary educator. Recipient good teaching award Amoco Foundation, 1983, Warner Rice prize for research in humanities, 1988; fellow American Council Learned Society, 1972-1973,National Endowment for Humanities fellow, 1982-1983, fellow Old Dominion Foundation, 1968, fellow Guggenheim Foundation, 1986-1987.
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1963; Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1966.
Career
Assistant professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1966-1969; assistant professor, Rutgers University, 1969-1970; associate professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1970-1975; Professor of English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, since 1975; C.A. Patrides professor literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, since 1995. Consultant various university presses, scholastic journals, funding agys., since 1970. Member of advisory board Yeats: An Annual, since 1982, South Atlantic Review, 1985-1988, Review, since 1991, Text, since 1993.
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Transformations of Romanticism in Yeats, Eliot, and Stevens
(Killing hundreds and leaving a city in ruins, the San Fra...)
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Poetic Remaking: The Art of Browning, Yeats, and Pound
(This volume offers a coherent view of post-romantic poeti...)
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Transformations of Romanticism in Yeats, Eliot, and Stevens
Membership
Cubmaster Wolverine council Boy Scouts American, 1977-1979. Member Modern Language Association (Executive Committee Anglo-Irish 1976-1980, Executive Committee 20th Century English 1980-1985, Executive Committee Poetry 1987-1992, Executive Committee bibliography and textual studies 1993-1998, Executive Committee methods of research since 1998), Society forTextual Scholarship (program chair 1997), American Conference on Irish Studies(book prize judge 1991), Racquet Club, Princeton Club (New York City), Phi Beta Kappa.
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Married Jane Elizabeth York, June 22, 1982;children— Benjamin, Rebecca, Joshua.
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Recipient good teaching award Amoco Foundation, 1983, Warner Rice prize for research in humanities, 1988. Fellow American Council Learned Society, 1972-1973,National Endowment for Humanities fellow, 1982-1983, fellow Old Dominion Foundation, 1968, fellow Guggenheim Foundation, 1986-1987.Recipient good teaching award Amoco Foundation, 1983, Warner Rice prize for research in humanities, 1988. Fellow American Council Learned Society, 1972-1973,National Endowment for Humanities fellow, 1982-1983, fellow Old Dominion Foundation, 1968, fellow Guggenheim Foundation, 1986-1987.