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Block, Haskell Mayer was born on June 13, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Abraham M. and Edith (Hymen) Block.
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Provenance; from the personal library of Professor Lloyd Austin, University of Manchester. Physical description; viii, 114 p. ; 21 cm. Notes; SIGNED and inscribed by the author. Bibliography: p. 99-110. Subjects; Zola, Émile (1840-1902). - Assommoir. Mann, Thomas (1875-1955). - Buddenbrooks. Dreiser, Theodore (1871-1945). - American tragedy. Zola, Emile (1840-1902). - Assommoir. Mann, Thomas (1875-1955). Dreiser, Theodore (1871-1945). Zola, Émile (1840-1902). Naturalism in literature.
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Papers from the Conference at the State University of New York at Binghamton on October 28-29, 1988. Contributors include Hugo Bekker, Martin Bidney, Haskell Block, Christopher Fynsk, Joel Golb, Pierre Joris, and Dennis Schmidt. The papers explore aspects of Paul Celan's poetic thought and art.
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Block, Haskell Mayer was born on June 13, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Abraham M. and Edith (Hymen) Block.
Associate of Arts, North Park College, 1942. Bachelor of Arts Chicago, 1944. AM, Harvard University, 1947.
Doct. d'University, University Paris, 1949.
Instructor English, Queens College, New York City, 1949-1952; assistant and associate professor comparative literature, University of Wisconsin, 1952-1961; professor comparative literature, Brooklyn College, 1961-1975; Distinguished professor, Brooklyn College, 1974-1975; professor comparative literature, State University of New York, Binghamton, 1975-1991; professor emeritus, State University of New York, Binghamton, since 1991; H. Fletcher Brown professor comparative literature, U. Delaware, 1977-1978; professor comparative literature, Executive officer, Doctoral Program in Comparative Literature, City Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, 1968-1971; visiting professor, U. Hawaii, summer 1963; visiting professor, University of Illinois, 1966-1967; George A. Miller visiting professor, University of Illinois, 1983; visiting professor, U. Colorado, summer 1967; visiting professor, Harvard University, summer 1968, 72, 83, 85,; visiting professor, New York University, summer 1971, 82, 84-87; visiting professor, U. Düsseldorf, Germany, 1972-1973; visiting professor, U. Szeged, Hungary, 1979; visiting professor, U. Antwerp, Belgium, 1981, 83; Jacob Ziskind visiting professor, Brandeis U., 1986. Member selection committee for Western Europe, Foreign Area Fellowship Program,1965-1968, Camargo Foundation, 1971-1991, 93-96, member selection committee National Endowment for Humanities, 1977. Member seminars on 18th century European culture, theory of literature Columbia University.
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Served with United States Army Air Force, 1944-1945, China. Member American Association of University Professors, International Comparative Literature Association (advisory board 1970-1976), American Comparative Literature Association (president 1974-1977, advisory board 1977-1983, delegate to American Council Learned Societies 1977-1981, 84), Association Internationale des Docteurs des Universités de France (vice president 1981-1991), Eastern Comparative Literature Conference (chairman executive committee 1962-1986), Modern Language Association, Modern Humanities Research Association, Dante Society of America, Society French Studies, American Society Aesthetics, American Center Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Harvard Faculty Club (Cambridge, Massachusetts), Harvard Club (New York City), Quadrangle Club (Chicago), Faculty House/Columbia University.
Married Elaine Carlin, 1948 (divorced). Children: Randall, Laurie, Linda.