Background
Jonathan Arac was born on April 4, 1945, in New York City, New York, to Benjamin and Evelyn (Charm) Arac.
Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
Jonathan Arac received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1967. He also received there a Master of Arts in 1968, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1974.
(If racially offensive epithets are banned on CNN air time...)
If racially offensive epithets are banned on CNN air time and in the pages of USA Today, Jonathan Arac asks, shouldn’t a fair hearing be given to those who protest their use in an eighth-grade classroom? Placing Mark Twain’s comic masterpiece, Huckleberry Finn, in the context of long-standing American debates about race and culture, Jonathan Arac has written a work of scholarship in the service of citizenship.
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1997
(In the mid-nineteenth century writers such as Nathaniel H...)
In the mid-nineteenth century writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville produced works of fiction that even today, centuries later, help to define what American literature means. In this work of innovative literary history, Jonathan Arac explains what made this remarkable creativity possible and what it accomplished. His work also delves into a deep paradox that has haunted American literature: our nation's great works of literary narrative place themselves at a tense distance from our national life.
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2005
(This book records a major critic’s three decades of think...)
This book records a major critic’s three decades of thinking about the connection between literature and the conditions of people’s lives―that is, politics. A preference for impurity and a search for how to analyze and explain it are guiding threads in this book as its chapters pursue the complex entanglements of culture, politics, and society from which great literature arises. At its core is the nineteenth-century novel, but it addresses a broader range of writers as well, in a textured, contoured, discontinuous history.
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2011
Jonathan Arac was born on April 4, 1945, in New York City, New York, to Benjamin and Evelyn (Charm) Arac.
Jonathan Arac received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1967. He also received there a Master of Arts in 1968, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1974.
From 1973 to 1979, Arac worked as an assistant professor of English at Princeton University. He also was an educator at the University of Illinois and a professor of literature at Duke University. In 1987 Arac was appointed as a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University and later, he became a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
Jonathan Arac returned to Pitt in 2006 after five years at Columbia University, where he served as the department chair. Since 1979 he has served on the editorial group of boundary 2.
His current work focuses especially on the novel in the US and on questions of language in American writing. In 2008 he became the founding director of the humanities center at the University of Pittsburgh, a project of the School of Arts and Sciences to foster advanced research.
(If racially offensive epithets are banned on CNN air time...)
1997(In the mid-nineteenth century writers such as Nathaniel H...)
2005(This book records a major critic’s three decades of think...)
2011Arac is a member of the Modern Language Association of America, English Institute, and Phi Beta Kappa.