Background
Spacks, Patricia Meyer was born on November 17, 1929 in San Francisco, California, United States. Daughter of Norman B. and Lillian (Talcott) Meyer.
( This book offers a witty explanation of why boredom bot...)
This book offers a witty explanation of why boredom both haunts and motivates the literary imagination. Moving from Samuel Johnson to Donald Barthelme, from Jane Austen to Anita Brookner, Spacks shows us at last how we arrived in a postmodern world where boredom is the all-encompassing name we give our discontent. Her book, anything but boring, gives us new insight into the cultural usefulness—and deep interest—of boredom as a state of mind.
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Spacks, Patricia Meyer was born on November 17, 1929 in San Francisco, California, United States. Daughter of Norman B. and Lillian (Talcott) Meyer.
Bachelor, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, 1949. Doctor of Humane Letters, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, 1976. Master of Arts, Yale University, 1950.
Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Berkeley, 1955.
Instructor English Indiana University, Bloomington, 1954-1956. Instructor humanities University Florida, Gainesville, 1958-1959. From instructor to professor Wellesley College, Massachusetts, 1959-1979.
Professor English Yale University, New Haven, 1979-1989, chairman department, 1985-1988. Edgar F. Shannon professor English University Virginia, since 1989, chairman department, 1991-1997.
( This book offers a witty explanation of why boredom bot...)
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Member Modern Language Association (2nd vice president 1992, 1st vice president 1993, president 1994, member advisory committee 1976-1980, member executive council 1986-1989), American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Council Learned Societies (member board trustees since 1992, vice chair 1994-1997, chair since 1997), American Philosophical Society.
1 child, Judith Elizabeth Spacks.