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LEVIN, Harry Tuchman was born on July 18, 1912 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Son of I. H. Levin and Beatrice Tuchman.
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Harry Levin--one of America's major literary critics--offers a brilliant and original study of the whole world of comedy, concentrating on playwrights through the centuries, from Aristophanes and Plautus in classical times to Bernard Shaw and Bertolt Brecht and their recent successors. Viewing the comic repertory as a richly varied yet broadly unified whole, Levin provides a synthesis of theories and practice. Isolating two fundamental aspects of comedy--the ludicrous and irreverent "playboy," whom we laugh with, and the ridiculous and forbidding "killjoy," whom we laugh at--he traces the dialectical interplay of these components throughout history and across various cultures and media. While mainly focusing on the plays and the stage, with discussions of such major dramatists as Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Molière, and William Congreve, Levin also includes essays on such related topics as humor, satire, and games.
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"The author explores this tradition in depth and defines it with a breadth of vision, a dynamic vigor and freedom rarely paralleled today....His method, flexible, generous, humane in the best sense of the word, eschews pedantry, dogma, useless theorizing and scholastic argumentation."--The New York Times Book Review. "I wish to make it clear that The Gates of Horn represents an outstanding critical accomplishment."--Saturday Review. In the Odyssey, Homer describes two gates of the imagination: one of ivory through which fictitious dreams pass, and the other of horn, through which nothing but the truth may pass. Realism is the type of literature that passes through the horn, and in this significant study of the genre Levin examines a major form of Realism--the French novel--and focuses on five of its masters--Stendahl, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, And Proust. Now available in paperback, Levin's study is a veritable reconstruction of the artistic and intellectual life of a nation.
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The Power of Blackness is a profound and searching reinterpretation of Hawthorne, Poe and Melville, the three classic American masters of fiction. It is also an experiment in critical method, an exploration of the myth-making process by way of what may come to be known as literary iconology.
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One of the first books to sum up the contribution of James Joyce, this volume remains an essential guide to the works of a great innovator of modern literature. Because Harry Levin’s view is large, as opposed to the many necessary exegeses and close textual studies, he leads the reader easily into the delights to be found in Joyce, from the comparatively simple prose of Dubliners, through Ulysses and into the complexities of Finnegans Wake. The insight and brilliance of this "critical introduction," first published by New Directions in 1941, make it as rewarding for the expert as the student. For this revised edition, Mr. Levin, who is Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard, has made revisions and added a new preface and a long "postscript" which he calls "Revising Joyce." He examines the works that have come to light in the last few years and some of the important later biographical writings about Joyce.
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LEVIN, Harry Tuchman was born on July 18, 1912 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Son of I. H. Levin and Beatrice Tuchman.
AB, Harvard University, 1933. Member Society Fellows, junior fellow, Harvard University, 1939. Senior fellow, Harvard University, 1966.
Student, University Paris, 1934. Little D. (honorary), Syracuse University, 1952. Honorary Doctor of Laws, St. Andrews, 1962.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Union College, 1968. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Clarkson College, 1970. Doctor honoris causa, University Paris-Sorbonne, 1973.
Master of Arts (honorary), Oxford University, England, 1982.
Instructor, tutor in English, Harvard University, 1939-1944;
associate professor, Harvard University, 1944-1948;
professor, Harvard, 1948-1954;
Professor of English and comparative literature, Harvard University, 1954-1960;
department chairman comparative literature, Harvard University, 1946-1951, 53-54, 61-72, 77-78;
chairman division modern languages, Harvard University, 1951-1952, 55-61;
Irving Babbitt professor comparative literature, Harvard University, 1960-1983;
emeritus professor, Harvard, 1983-1994. Lecturer Lowell Lecturers, 1952, Salzburg Seminar, 1953, Gauss seminars, Princeton, 1961. Exchange professor of University Paris, 1953.
Visiting professor Tokyo U., 1955, Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies Villa I Tatti, 1989, U. Alcala, 1989. Mistress William Beckman professor University of California at Berkeley, 1957. Alexander lecturer U. Toronto, 1958.
Patten lecturer Indiana U., 1967. Overseas fellow Churchill College, Cambridge U., 1967. Visiting fellow All Souls College, University of Oxford, 1974, Folger Institute seminars, 1980.
National Endowment for Humanities senior fellow, 1979. Visiting professor U. P.R., 1981, Chinese U. Hong Kong, 1982. Eastman professor, fellow Balliol College, University of Oxford, 1982-1983.
Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, 1980-1981. Chairman English Institute, 1957. Senior fellow Center Medieval and Renaissance Studies, U. Arizona, 1984.
Una lecturer University of California-Berkeley, 1985.
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Trustee Cambridge Drama Festival. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Society Fellows (acting chairman 1964-1965), National Institute Arts and Letters, International Association University Professors English, Federation International des Langues et Littératures, British Academy, American Philosophical Society, International Comparative Literature Association (vice president 1963-1967), American Comparative Literature Association (president 1965-1968), Academy of Literature Studies (vice president 1973-1974), Modern Humanities Research Association (president 1976), Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa.
Clubs: Harvard (New York City).
Theatre, travel, Cape Cod.
Married Elena Ivanovna Zarudnaya, June 21, 1939. 1 child, Marina L. Frederiksen).