Background
Waswo, Richard Arthur was born on October 26, 1939 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Arrived in Switzerland, 1976. Son of Arthur and Mildred Beulah (Slaybaugh) Waswo.
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"This book attempts to tell the history of a story, and to show how it is of central importance to western culture because it defines both what 'culture' is and who possesses it, " Richard Waswo begins in this impassioned, humane, and compelling reinterpretation of western civilization. The story Waswo refers to is a legend commonly regarded as fact for two millenia: the descent of all European for peoples from emigrant Trojans. But this study, astonishing in its range and fascinating in its vision, does not merely trace the theme through history. Instead, Waswo examines the way the legend influenced western perception and behavior and became embodied in our literature, religion, law, philosophy, history, science, social theory, and film. Implicit in this legend of perpetual colonization, Waswo says, is a distinction between "culture, " with its settled agricultural and urbanized communities, and the "savage, " with its hunting, gathering, and nomadic pastoralism. Waswo examines the powerful influence of th legend from its first expression in the Aeneid itself to The Faerie Queene to the fiction of Conrad and Forster, and also considers such widely disparate manifestations as the films of John Ford, the defoliation of Vietnam, and the policies of the World Bank. Both polemical and thought-provoking, the book shows how "legendary images defining our civilization determine our conduct toward other cultures: the fictions are both enacted in history and at the same time used to justify such action morally."
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Exploring the status of the semantic unit in recent linguistic and literary theories--the sign itself--Richard Waswo relates present-day literary concerns to Renaissance thought about the connections between language and meaning. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Waswo, Richard Arthur was born on October 26, 1939 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Arrived in Switzerland, 1976. Son of Arthur and Mildred Beulah (Slaybaugh) Waswo.
AB, Stanford University, 1961. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1970.
Assistant curator The Houghton Library., Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1963. Instructor humanities San Francisco State College, 1964-1965. Instructor English English Language Education Council, Tokyo, 1966-1967.
Assistant professor English San Jose State College, California, 1967-1970, University Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1970-1976, University Geneva, 1976-1982, professor, since 1982. Visiting research fellow Merton College, Oxford, England, 1986-1987.
("This book attempts to tell the history of a story, and t...)
( Exploring the status of the semantic unit in recent lin...)
University Virginia Sesquicentinnial Associate, 1974-1975. Member Renaissance Society of America, International Society History Rhetoric, College D'Anglicistes Romands (president 1979-1980), Swiss Association University Teacher English (1990-1996), Phi Beta Kappa.