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Salomon, Roger Blaine was born on February 26, 1928 in Providence. Son of Henry and Lucia Angell (Capewell) Salomon.
(In a compact, readable, and accessible book, Roger B. Sal...)
In a compact, readable, and accessible book, Roger B. Salomon explores the nature of horror in literature and in life. Rather than minimizing horror by narrowly associating it with psychological drives, persecution, or extremism, he approaches horror through the medium of narrative as a significant and enduring physical and metaphysical reality. Salomon focuses on fictions of horror, including eighteenth-century Gothic and nineteenth-century ghost stories. He does not, however, isolate literary examples from more general human issues, including religious belief. Mazes of the Serpent takes up examples of horror from historical and personal narratives―including battle memoirs and Holocaust testimonies―as Salomon identifies certain common themes and qualities that cross the boundary between fiction and actual human experience.
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Desperate Storytelling demonstrates how writers from Byron to Saul Bellow have embraced Cervantes's vision of the artist as creative exile, born to tell tales of valor and nobility yet doomed to recognize the world's banal reality. Forced to portray adventure in a reductive voice, these writers have immersed heroism in madness and narrative in mockery. Their fictions reflect an awareness of life's absurdities, yet a refusal to forsake the ideal. Reassessing the post-Romantic literary consciousness, Roger B. Salomon explores the many permutations of the mock-heroic mode, the complex aesthetic instrument brought into being by Cervantes, one by which a writer takes on a dual role as both nostalgic creator and ironic critic. The mock hero is almost by definition an outdated one, aligning his deepest emotional attachments to dead mythologies and forgotten codes of ethics; he is an alienated figure in a landscape hostile to the possibility of any kind of attainment. Just as Don Quixote's noble madness in an ignoble age invites both sympathy and derision, so later incarnations of the mock hero immerse the reader in a dialogue between the real and a faded ideal, between the sensible and the admirable. Describing a literary mode that joins heroic endeavor with its deflating results, Desperate Storytelling traces the adventures of literature's misplaced heroes from Nabokov's Berlin to Saul Bellow's Chicago, from James Joyce's Dublin to Mark Twain's Mississippi.
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Salomon, Roger Blaine was born on February 26, 1928 in Providence. Son of Henry and Lucia Angell (Capewell) Salomon.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1950; Master of Arts, University of California at Berkeley, 1951; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley, 1957.
Instructor, Mills College, Oakland, California, 1955-1957; instructor, then assistant professor, Yale University, New Haven, 1957-1966; member of faculty, Case Western Reserve U., Cleveland, since 1966; Professor of English, Case Western Reserve U., Cleveland, since 1969; Oviatt Professor of English, Case Western Reserve U., Cleveland, 1990; department chairman, Case Western Reserve U., Cleveland, 1974-1980; now part-time Professor of English, Case Western Reserve U., Cleveland, since 1994. Member advisory screening committee American literature Senior Fulbright-Hayes Program, 1973-1976, chairman, 1975. Member grants-in-aid selection committee American Council LearnedSocs., 1976-1978.
( Desperate Storytelling demonstrates how writers from By...)
(In a compact, readable, and accessible book, Roger B. Sal...)
Served to First lieutenant United States Air Force, 1952-1953. Member American Association of University Professors, Modern Language Association.
Married Elizabeth Helen Lowenstein, June 14, 1950. Children— Pamela, Wendy.