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Gillespie, Gerald Ernest Paul was born on July 12, 1933 in Cleveland. Son of Francis and Nora Veronica (Quinn) Gillespie.
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The themes of «erring,» «education,» and «development» were often linked with the master-images of the garden and labyrinth in Renaissance writing. Humanist concerns about natural order, temporality, and history could be situated in these poetic realms insofar as they symbolized fluctuating aspects of a more complex reality. The imaginative use of the garden and labyrinth is widely detectable in the generic structures and stylistic patterns of the age.
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This book follows several major European literary «echoes» still reverberating since the mysterious emergence of such archetypal figures as Faust, Hamlet, Quixote, and Don Juan alongside lingering ancient and medieval protagonists in the Renaissance. Four centuries of attempts to redefine «modern» identity are traced against the evolution of a new genre of totalizing encyclopaedic literature, the «humoristic» tradition which re-weaves the positive and negative strands of the European, and today also New World, «grand narrative.» The book’s method, inspired by Joyce, is to «listen» to recurrent motifs in the cultural flow from Humanism to Postmodernism for clues to an identity transcending the personal.
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Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann, and James Joyce grew into adulthood during the advent of modernism. They still command our interest as witnesses of an age that brought both the excitement of constant innovation in the arts and technology and, with the eruption of World War I, the challenge of the greatest prolonged crisis for Western civilization since the French Revolution. The original version of Proust, Mann, Joyce in the Modernist Context strove to show how a kindred encyclopedic drive and sacramental sense informed their responses to the epochal trauma, yielding three distinct and monumental visions of the human estate by the 1920s. In this second edition, several chapters have been augmented and a new chapter added to encompass important features of modernist prose fiction reaching into and beyond World War II. These enhancements allow greater attention to the late works of Mann and Joyce, contributions of the New World authors, and the special relationship of film to literature. Some 300 writers, artists, and thinkers are referenced to illuminate the creative variety of the larger contexts in which such novelists as Gide, Kafka, Woolf, and Beckett have a prominent place. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Gerald Gillespie is professor emeritus at Stanford University and past president of the International Comparative Literature Association. Among his recent publications is By Way of Comparison: Reflections on the Theory and Practice of Comparative Literature. PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION: "Gerald Gillespie's long and productive scholarly career evidences itself in the encyclopedic scope of this insightful analysis of literary history. . . ." -- Choice, Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title "A substantial critical study, one of the most widely balanced accounts of modernism we have had in some time." -- Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature "Gillespie belongs to an endangered scholarly species: that of the real comparatists. . . ." -- Comparative Literature "A masterful study offering a new and uplifting view of the modern, while providing a comparative vision of the work of three great modern authors that transcends the accepted borders of modern understanding."--James Joyce Quarterly
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Gillespie, Gerald Ernest Paul was born on July 12, 1933 in Cleveland. Son of Francis and Nora Veronica (Quinn) Gillespie.
AB, Harvard University, 1956. Postgraduate, University Tübingen, Germany, 1956—1957. Master of Arts, Ohio State University, 1958.
Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, 1961. Postgraduate, University Munich, 1960—1961.
Assistant professor University Southern California, Los Angeles, 1961-1965. From associate professor to professor State University of New York, Binghamton, 1965-1974. Professor Stanford (California) University, since 1974.
Visiting professor University Pennsylvania, Phila, 1969, New York University, 1970, University Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1978, Peking University, Beijing, 1985, University East Anglia, Norwich, England, 1988, University Munich, 1993, University Hagen, Germany, 2002. Honorary professor, Liaoning University, China.
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Member of Modern Language Association (executive committee comparative studies in romanticism and the 19th century 1982-1987, member national program committee 1985-1988, member executive committee classical studies and modern literature 1986-1991), California Association Scholars (board directors since 1992), Association Literature Scholars and Critics (council 1998—2001), Renaissance Society of America, British Comparative Literature Association, American Comparative Literature Association, International Comparative Literature Association (secretary 1979-1985, member editorial board bulletin 1979-1985, vice president 1985-1988, president 1994-1997), Berliner Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (correspondent).
Married Adrienne Amalia Galante, September 5, 1959.