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Olson, Paul Richard was born on November 2, 1925 in Rockford, Illinois, United States. Son of Oscar Wilhelm and Jenny Ingeborg (Taube) Olson.
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Circle of Paradox: Time and Essence in the Poetry of Juan Ramon Jimenez. Paul R. Olson. Copyright 1967, John Hopkins, Baltimore. Hardcover in very good condition. ex-libris. NO dust jacket. Shelved in Literature. The Bookman serving Colorado Springs since 1990.
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"...Unamuno often entertains a view of the universe as an enormous system of embedded and embedding forms, structures nested within other structures in seemingly endless series." -From The Great Chiasmus In The Great Chiasmus, Paul R. Olson explores the use of the chiasmus in the work of Miguel de Unamuno. The chiasmus, a reversal in the order of words or parts of speech in parallel phrases, appears on a variety of levels, from brief microstructures ("blanca como la nieve y como la nieve fria"), to the narrative structures of entire novels, and even, Olson suggests, to encompass the stages in Unamuno's novelistic work. Olson's close readings of the texts in terms of this structure lead to observations on Spanish history, events in Unamuno's life, the psychological dimensions of his characters, and the authorial self found within his texts. The Great Chiasmus shows us how Unamuno uses grammar to reflect apparent contraries as freely reversible and thus identical. In this connection, Unamuno explores concepts usually considered opposites-spirit and matter, word and flesh.
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Olson, Paul Richard was born on November 2, 1925 in Rockford, Illinois, United States. Son of Oscar Wilhelm and Jenny Ingeborg (Taube) Olson.
Bachelor of Arts, Univercity Illinois, 1948; A.M., University of Illinois, 1950; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1959.
Instructor, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1956-1959; assistant professor, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1959-1961; assistant professor modern Spanish literature, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1961-1963; associate professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1963-1967; professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1967-1991; professor emeritus, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, since 1991.
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Member of Modern Language Association, Association International Hispanistas, National Association Scholars.
Married Phyllis Elizabeth Edwards, January 10, 1953. Children: Thomas Jeremy, John Stephen, Carl Philip, Paul Andrew.