Background
Charney, Hanna Kurz was born on January 8, 1931 in Vienna, Austria. Daughter of Leopold and Frida (Wolf) Kurz. came to the United States, 1948.
(The detective novel, a genre long associated with reading...)
The detective novel, a genre long associated with reading for escape, is here found to be the literary successor to the nineteenth-century English "novel of manners." The author examines the works of Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, and Rex Stout, among others.
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Charney, Hanna Kurz was born on January 8, 1931 in Vienna, Austria. Daughter of Leopold and Frida (Wolf) Kurz. came to the United States, 1948.
Bachelor, City University of New York, 1951. Master of Arts, Smith College, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1956.
From lecturer to professor French and comparative literature City University of New York, from 1953, chair romance languages, 1967-1970, baccalaureate program, 1988-1990. Visiting professor Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1968-1970.
(The detective novel, a genre long associated with reading...)
Member B'nai B'rith, United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Member Modern Language Association (Parker prize committee since 1993), American Association Teachers French, Society for Philosophy and Literature, Comparative Literature Society, Société de Philosophie de Langue Francaise, International Phenomenology Institute, American Society for Yad Vashem, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Maurice M. Charney, June 20, 1954. Children: Leopold J., Paul R.