Background
Robert Folkenflik was born on May 23, 1939, in Newark, New Jersey, United States.
New Brunswick, Newark, and Camden, New Jersey, United States
Rutgers University
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
University of Minnesota
Ithaca, New York, United States
Cornell University
Rochester, New York, United States
University of Rochester
Irvine, California, 92697, United States
University of California
2008
University Librarian Gerry Munoff with Robert Folkenflik
New Brunswick, Newark, and Camden, New Jersey, United States
Rutgers University
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
University of Minnesota
Ithaca, New York, United States
Cornell University
Rochester, New York, United States
University of Rochester
Irvine, California, 92697, United States
University of California
Guggenheim Fellowship
(Discusses the eighteenth-century British writer's approac...)
Discusses the eighteenth-century British writer's approach to biography, suggests what attracted him to the genre, and shows how his works differ from earlier biographies
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1978
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Introduction and Notes by Robert Folkenflik Rich in playful double entendres, digressions, formal oddities, and typographical experiments, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman provoked a literary sensation when it first appeared in England in a series of volumes from 1759 to 1767. An ingeniously structured novel (about writing a novel) that fascinates like a verbal game of chess, Tristram Shandy is the most protean and playful English novel of the eighteenth century and a celebration of the art of fiction; its inventiveness anticipates the work of Joyce, Rushdie, and Fuentes in our own century. This Modern Library Paperback is set from the nine-volume first edition from 1759.
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Focusing primarily on the period from the eighteenth-century to the present, this interdisciplinary volume takes a fresh look at the institutions and practices of autobiography and self-portraiture in Europe, the United States and other cultures.
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This book proposes that allegory is not a species of literature but a structure of reading applied to uncomfortable juxtapositions within literary texts. Examples from centuries of response to English Renaissance narrative poetry show not what poems mean but how they may be read and what cultural conditions encourage allegorical or nonallegorical readings. The study also encompasses interpretations of classical verse, biblical parable, Jacobean masque, modern lyric, and television advertising to explore how texts move in and out of the category of allegory.
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The chapters constituting this book are different in subject and method, striking testimony to the range of Paulson’s interests and the versatility of his critical powers. In his prolific career he has produced extensive analysis of art, poetry, fiction, and aesthetics produced in England between 1650 and 1830. Paulson’s unique contribution has to do with his understanding of “seeing” and “reading” as closely related enterprises, and “popular” forms in art and literature as intimately connected—connections illustrated by literary critics and art historians here. Every essay shares some of the concerns and methods that characterize Paulson’s wonderfully idiosyncratic thought—except for the final essay, an attempt systematically to analyze Paulson’s critical principles and methods. Recurrent themes are a concern with satire in the eighteenth century; a connection between verbal and visual reading; an insistence on the importance of individual artistic choices to the history of culture; an attention to the aims and motives of individual makers of art; and a sensitivity to the crucial links between high and low art. This volume offers rich explorations of a range of subjects: Swift’s relationship to Congreve; Zoffany’s condemnation of Gillray and Hogarth, and broader implications for the role of art in public discourse; the presentation of mourning in the work of the Welsh artist and writer Edward Pugh; G. M. Woodward’s “Coffee-House Characters,” representing a turn from satire on morals towards satire on manners; Adam Smith’s evolving aesthetic program; Samuel Richardson’s notions of social reading. The discussions represent a variety of exemplifications of the Paulsonesque, showing a concern with satiric representation in mixed media, with different forms of heterodoxy and iconoclasm, and with the values of producers of popular and polite culture in this period.
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Robert Folkenflik was born on May 23, 1939, in Newark, New Jersey, United States.
Folkenflik obtained bachelor's degree at the Rutgers University in 1961. Five years later he received master's degree from the University of Minnesota, as well as doctor's degree from the Cornell University in 1968.
Folkenflik began to work at the University of Rochester, beginning as an instructor. He became an assistant professor of English there, holding that position from 1967 till 1975. He was a director of freshman English at that educational institution for 2 years from 1971. Since 1975 he had served as a professor of English at the University of California in Irvine. Folkenflik retired in June 2006. He had also worked as a visiting professor and scholar at the University of Konstanz, the Claremont Graduate University and the University of Barcelona. He was a founder and a general editor of the Irvine Studies in the Humanities.
Folkenflik's books include Samuel Johnson, Biographer; The Culture of Autobiography: Constructions of Self-Representation; and The English Hero: 1660-1800. In his most known book Samuel Johnson, Biographer, Robert Folkenflik examines the achievements of the English writer and lexicographer as a chronicler of the lives of others, focusing in particular on his theory and practice of biographical writing. According to Folkenflik, Johnson regarded biography as more than the study of a unique individual and how that person differs from everyone else. He believed that biography also furnishes insights into the human experience and that it can serve as a means of moral instruction.
Folkenflik has also published over fifty essays and reviewed 175 books. He worked as a contributor to professional journals, including ELH, Philological Quarterly, Centennial Review, Novel, Toronto Quarterly, and Studies in Burke and His Time.
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Folkenflik is a member of the Modern Language Association and the American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Folkenflik married in 1965. He has two children.
