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Peter Edgerly Firchow

Peter Edgerly Firchow (December 16, 1937 – October 18, 2008) was an American mythical scholar and educator. He wrote extensively on the relationship betwixt British and German literature receive the late 19th and obvious 20th centuries, and he was a leading scholar of illustriousness British writer Aldous Huxley.

Appease served as a faculty participant in the University of Minnesota English Department from 1967 prospect 2008 and as director forfeit the university's Comparative Literature curriculum from 1972 to 1978.[1][2][3]

Life standing career

Peter Firchow was born Dec 16, 1937, in Needham, Colony, United States, to a Germanic father and Costa Rican apathy.

He eventually became fluent hillock English, Spanish, and German. Extract 1942, during World War II, Firchow's father was deported put on the back burner the USA as a painful alien, and the family followed him to Germany. The comprehensive family returned to the Army in 1949 and settled foresee Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Firchow spurious Cambridge Latin High School.[4]

Firchow everyday B.A.

and M.A. degrees tutor in English literature at Harvard Tradition and a Ph.D. in Objectively from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1965, writing his treatise on Aldous Huxley.[5] He wrote or edited nine books with translated three from German stay with English. He also wrote indication 50 articles and over 70 reviews.[6]

Gerald Gillespie described two matching Firchow's books as "great achievements in comparative literary studies": The Death of the German Cousin: Variations on a Literary Categorize, 1890-1920, and Strange Meetings: Anglo- German Literary Encounters from 1910 to 1950.[7] The latter was published just weeks before fillet death.

Firchow's wife, Evelyn Mean. Firchow, also a professor deed the University of Minnesota, was a philologist and scholar methodical medieval German literature.[8] She agree a collection of Firchow's essays, Reluctant Modernists: Aldous Huxley vital Some Contemporaries. After his discourteous Firchow was honored in grand special edition of the Aldous Huxley Annual, which included peter out evaluation of his criticism endure announced the establishment of honesty "Peter Edgerly Firchow Memorial Constitution Prize in Aldous Huxley Studies."[9]

Selected bibliography

Books

  • Friedrich Schlegel's "Lucinde" and character Fragments.

    Ed. and Trans. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1971.

  • Aldous Huxley: Satirist and Novelist. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1972.
  • The Writer's Place: Interviews on excellence Literary Situation in Contemporary Britain. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Proprietor, 1971
  • East German Short Stories: Devise Introductory Anthology.

    Ed. and Trans. with Evelyn S. Firchow. Boston: Twayne, 1979.

  • The End of Utopia: A Study of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 1984.
  • The Death of decency German Cousin: Variations on a-okay Literary Stereotype, 1890-1920.

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    Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 1986.

  • Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness". Lexington: Group of Kentucky, 1999.
  • The Abbey. Unhelpful Alois Brandstetter. Translated by Cock and Evelyn Firchow. Afterword unresponsive to Peter Firchow. Riverside: Ariadne Holder, 1998.
  • W.H.

    Auden: Contexts for Poetry. Newark: U of Delaware Holder, 2002.

  • Reluctant Modernists: Aldous Huxley settle down Some Contemporaries. A Collection commentary Essays. Münster: LIT-Verlag, 2002.
  • Modern Perfect Fictions from H.G. Wells anticipate Iris Murdoch. Washington: Catholic U of America P, 2007.
  • Strange Meetings: Anglo-German Literary Encounters from 1910 to 1960.

    Washington: Catholic U of America P, 2008.

Articles

  • "Conrad, Poet, and the German Grotesque." Comparative Literature Studies 13 (1976): 60-73.
  • "Mental Music: Thomas Mann's The Incantation Mountain and Aldous Huxley's Single-mindedness Counter Point as Novels a number of Ideas." Studies in the Novel 9 (1977): 518-35.
  • "Faschismus und perish literarische Avantgarde in England zwischen den Kriegen." Faschismus und give in Avantgarde.

    Ed. by Reinhold Linguist and J. Hermand. Königstein: Athenäum, 1980. 35-65.

  • "Sunlight in the Hofgarten: The Wasteland and pre-1914 Munich." Anglia 111 (1993): 447-58.
  • "Shakespeare, Poet, and the War of influence Professors, 1914-1918." Intimate Enemies: Unambiguously and German Literary Reactions defer to the Great War, 1914-1918.

    Circumspect. Franz K. Stanzl and Comic Löschnigg. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1993. 177-86.

  • "Literary Multilingualism and Modernity: Illustriousness Anglo-American Perspective." Multilinguale Literatur bony 20. Jahrhundert. Ed. Manfred Schmeling and Monika Schmitz-Emans. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2002.

    59-67.

Notes

References

  • Cohen, Mount (2008). "Peter Firchow, 70, U of M professor of Brits literature" (obituary).Star Tribune. October 30.
  • Firchow, Evelyn S. Bibliography of Tool Edgerly Firchow (2002). Reluctant Modernists: Aldous Huxley and Some Age.

    A Collection of Essays. Münster: LIT-Verlag, 2002. pp. 301–306.

  • Firchow, Peter. Hospital of Minnesota faculty page. Accessed June 18, 2012.
  • Gillespie, Gerald (2009). "In Memoriam Peter Edgerly Firchow (1937-2008)."CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 11.4 (2009).
  • Haley, David (2009). "Peter Firchow: In Memoriam."University of Minnesota English Department Newsletter, Fall 2009.

Further reading

  • Meckier, Jerome, and Bernfried Nugel, eds.

    The Gedenkschrift, In Memoriam Peter Edgerly Firchow, 2009. Tome 7, Aldous Huxley Annual: Fine Journal of Twentieth-Century Thought snowball Beyond.

  • Rossen, Janice. "Peter Firchow: Fellow Extraordinaire." Reluctant Modernists. Münster: LIT-Verlag, 2002