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Peck, Russell A. was born on December 17, 1933 in Riverton, Wyoming, United States. Son of LeRoy Ellsworth and Elvira Eugenia (Sostrom) Peck.
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Heroic Women from the Old Testament in Middle English Verse: Asneth, Susan, Jephthah's Daughter, Judith (TEAMS MIddle English Texts) by Russell A. Peck, TEAMS (Consortium for the Teaching of the M (1991) Paperback
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Heroic Women from the Old Testament in Middle English Verse: Asneth, Susan, Jephthah's Daughter, Judith (TEAMS MIddle English Texts)
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Kingship and Common Profit in Gower's Confessio Amantis (Literary Structures)
( Confessio Amantis, the principal work in English by Joh...)
Confessio Amantis, the principal work in English by John Gower, friend of Chaucer, by whom he was influenced, has always been read as a conventional poem about the seven deadly sins. Here, paying particular attention to the poem’s language and style, Peck gives a brilliant new reinterpretation which not only illuminates the poem’s elegant beauty but provides a profound moral purpose as well. Gower’s Confessio, according to Peck, is a restatement of late fourteenth-century ideas of good and bad behavior, and is designed to illuminate and reshape the minds and hearts of men. Peck sees the concepts of kingship”the governance of souls as well as kingdomsand common profit”the mutual enhancement of such kingdomsas the poem’s unifying ideas. Peck’s discussion further shows how the various tales hold together and support the poem’s loose plot and the poet’s strongly moral intention.
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Russell A. Peck
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Russell A. Peck, American English educator. Recipient E. Harris Harbison award Danforth Foundation, 1972, Edward Peck Curtis award University Rochester, 1972, Professor of Year award and Gold medal Council Advancement and Support Education, 1985, John Hurt Fisher prize, 1993; Guggenheim fellow, 1979.
Education
After a childhood in Wyoming and an undergraduate education at Princeton University, Peck earned a Doctor of Philosophy in English from Indiana University in 1963, writing a dissertation on number symbolism in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer.
Career
Assistant professor, U. Rochester, New York, 1961-1967;
associate professor, U. Rochester, New York, 1968-1973;
Professor of English, U. Rochester, New York, since 1973;
Mercer Brugler professor humanities, U. Rochester, New York
John Hall Deane professor rhetoric
founding director, Medieval House, New York, 1971;
director graduate study, Medieval House, New York, since 1986. Board directors college-level equivalency program Ednl. Testing Svc., 1970-1972, board directors graduate record examination, 1977-1982.
Director pilot program seminars for secondary teachers National Endowment for Humanities, 1983, 84, 90, 93, pilot program seminars for college students, 1985. Endowed chair in humanities College St. Thomas, St. Paul, 1985-1986. Olive B. O'Connor chair Colgate University, 1991.
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Kingship and Common Profit in Gower's Confessio Amantis (Literary Structures)
( Confessio Amantis, the principal work in English by Joh...)
- Heroic Women from the Old Testament in Middle English Verse: Asneth, Susan, Jephthah's Daughter, Judith (TEAMS MIddle English Texts) by Russell A. Peck, TEAMS (Consortium for the Teaching of the M (1991) Paperback
- Heroic Women from the Old Testament in Middle English Verse: Asneth, Susan, Jephthah's Daughter, Judith (TEAMS MIddle English Texts)
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Kingship and Common Profit in Gower's Confessio Amantis (Literary Structures)
Membership
Member Modern Language Association (chairman Middle English division 1981, board conference on Christianity and Literature), Medieval Academy American (regional center representative 1982-1991).
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Married Ruth Elaine Damaree, June 18, 1958. Children— Demaree Catherine, Nathan Russell, Gunther William.
Education
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1956
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1963
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1961 - 1967
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1971
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His research has been supported by the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2014, an Artistic Directorship at the University of Rochester was endowed in honor of Peck and his wife, Ruth; it is currently held by Nigel Maister. In 2015, he was awarded the Robert L. Kindrick-CARA Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies by the Medieval Academy of America.His research has been supported by the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2014, an Artistic Directorship at the University of Rochester was endowed in honor of Peck and his wife, Ruth; it is currently held by Nigel Maister. In 2015, he was awarded the Robert L. Kindrick-CARA Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies by the Medieval Academy of America.