Background
William Freedman was born on July 28, 1938, in Newark, New Jersey, United States to Edward and Debby (maiden name, Sachs; later surname, Weinberg) Freedman.
William received B.A. from Rutgers University.
(When two rival presidents in the distant future, foes sin...)
When two rival presidents in the distant future, foes since their youth, declare a galactic hyper-power war, a series of events ensue which transforms America’s place in the world … and beyond! With devilish delight William Freedman upends icons, role models and expectations with laugh-out-loud irreverence. His characters defy tradition and stereotyping, revealing the mayhem and high jinks which – without doubt – exist within the hallowed halls of existing rival countries, let alone imaginary future nations and governments. Outrageous slap-and-tickle combined with political prods and withering insight make Land that I Love a compelling lampoon.
https://www.amazon.com/Land-That-Love-William-Freedman-ebook/dp/B004S3CS64/?tag=2022091-20
2009
(Few if any writers in the English language have been cite...)
Few if any writers in the English language have been cited, praised, chided, or marveled at more routinely than Joseph Conrad for the perplexing evasiveness, contradictoriness, and indeterminacy of their fiction. William Freedman argues that the explanations typically offered for these identifying characteristics of much of Conrad's work are inadequate if not mistaken. Freedman's claim is that the illusiveness of a coherent interpretation of Conrad's novels and shorter fictions is owed not primarily to the inherent slipperiness or inadequacy of language or the consequence of a willful self-deconstruction. Nor is it a product of the writer's philosophical nihilism or a realized aesthetic of suggestive vagueness. Rather, Freedman argues, the perplexing elusiveness of Conrad's fiction is the consequence of a pervasive ambivalence toward threatening knowledge, a protective reluctance and recoil that are not only inscribed in Conrad's tales and novels, but repeatedly declared, defended, and explained in his letters and essays. Conrad's narrators and protagonists often set out on an apparent quest for hidden knowledge or are drawn into one. But repelled or intimidated by the looming consequences of their own curiosity and fervor, they protectively obscure what they have barely glimpsed or else retreat to an armory of practiced distractions. The result is a confusingly choreographed dance of approach and withdrawal, fascination and revulsion, revelation and concealment. The riddling contradictions of these fictions are thus in large measure the result of this ambivalence, their evasiveness the mark of intimidation's triumph over fascination. The idea of dangerous and forbidden knowledge is at least as old as Genesis, and Freedman provides a background for Conrad's recoil from full exposure in the rich admonitory history of such knowledge in theology, myth, philosophy, and literature. He traces Conrad's impassioned, at times pleading case for protective avoidance in the writer's letters, essays, and prefaces, and he elucidates its enactment and its connection to Conrad's signature evasiveness in a number of short stories and novels, with special attention to The Secret Agent, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Under Western Eyes, and The Rescue.
https://www.amazon.com/Joseph-Conrad-Anxiety-Knowledge-Non/dp/161117306X/?tag=2022091-20
2014
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William Freedman was born on July 28, 1938, in Newark, New Jersey, United States to Edward and Debby (maiden name, Sachs; later surname, Weinberg) Freedman.
William received B.A. from Rutgers University, M.A. from University of Florida and Ph.D. from University of Chicago. William served in Israel Defense Forces from 1973 to 1991.
William was an assistant professor of English at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York from 1964 to 1968. He then served at University of Haifa as a professor of English.
(When two rival presidents in the distant future, foes sin...)
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2009(Few if any writers in the English language have been cite...)
2014William is fond of writing poetry, weightlifting and popular culture.
William married Marcia on November 12, 1961. They divorced in November 1974. He has two children: Jennifer, Etai.
