Bancroft Prize
1回登壇
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第4回（1951年 第2回開催） Winner
Henry Nash Smith
ヘンリー・ナッシュ・スミス
Henrī Nashu Sumisu
プロフィール
- 性別
- 男性
- 生誕
- 1906-09-29 （Dallas, Texas）
- 死没
- 1986-06-06 （Elko, Nevada） 79歳
- 国籍
- United States
- 言語
- English
- 居住地歴
- Dallas, Texas → Austin, Texas → Minneapolis, Minnesota → Berkeley, California
経歴
- 職業
- scholar, literary scholar, university professor
- 活動期間
- 1927年〜1974年
- 所属
- Southern Methodist University (faculty), University of Texas at Austin (faculty), University of Minnesota (faculty), University of California, Berkeley (faculty), Modern Language Association (served as president)
- 所属団体
- Modern Language Association, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society
- 影響を受けた人物
- Rudyard Kipling, Robert L. Stevenson, Mark Twain
- 影響を与えた人物
- American Studies (Myth and Symbol School), Later American studies and cultural historians
学歴
| 学校 | 学部 | 学科 | 学位 | 期間 | 国 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Methodist University | — | English | BA | — | United States |
| Harvard University | — | English/Literature | MFA, PhD | — | United States |
Southern Methodist University
English
学位:
BA
卒業年:
1926
国:
United States
Harvard University
English/Literature
学位:
MFA, PhD
卒業年:
1940
国:
United States
Earned PhD in 1940; also received an MFA.
受賞歴
| 年 | 賞名 | 対象作品 | 部門 | 主催 | 結果 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Bancroft Prize | Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth | — | Columbia University/Bancroft Prize | winner |
| 1950 | John H. Dunning Prize | Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth | — | American Historical Association | winner |
| 1974 | Guggenheim Fellowship | — | — | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | fellowship |
| 1961 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected) | — | — | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | elected member |
| 1981 | American Philosophical Society (elected) | — | — | American Philosophical Society | elected member |
Bancroft Prize
1951
対象作品:
Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth
主催:
Columbia University/Bancroft Prize
結果:
winner
John H. Dunning Prize
1950
対象作品:
Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth
主催:
American Historical Association
結果:
winner
Guggenheim Fellowship
1974
主催:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
結果:
fellowship
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected)
1961
主催:
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
結果:
elected member
American Philosophical Society (elected)
1981
主催:
American Philosophical Society
結果:
elected member
受賞・候補エディション
作品
代表作
Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth
1950年 scholarship / cultural history 352ページA scholarly analysis of how the nineteenth-century American West was perceived as symbol and myth, using sources from popular culture such as dime novels. The book became foundational for the Myth and Symbol School of American Studies.
frontier mythpopular culturesymbol and myth
Mark Twain of the Enterprise
1957年 literary studyA study of Mark Twain including chronology and analysis of his writings.
Mark Twain studiesdevelopment of a writer
Mark Twain: The Development of a Writer
1962年 literary studyAnalyzes the development of Mark Twain as a writer.
development of a writerAmerican literature
Mark Twain's Fable of Progress: Political and Economic Ideas in A Connecticut Yankee
1964年 literary criticismExamines the political and economic ideas in A Connecticut Yankee.
political ideaseconomic ideasTwain studies
Popular Culture and Industrialism, 1865-1890
1967年 cultural history / scholarshipStudies the relationship between popular culture and industrialism in the United States from 1865 to 1890.
popular cultureindustrialism
Democracy and the Novel
1978年 literary criticismAn essay collection reflecting on the relationship between the novel and democracy.
novel theorydemocracy
全著作
- Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth (1950)
- Mark Twain of the Enterprise (1957)
- Mark Twain: The Development of a Writer (1962)
- Mark Twain's Fable of Progress: Political and Economic Ideas in A Connecticut Yankee (1964)
- Popular Culture and Industrialism, 1865-1890 (1967)
- Democracy and the Novel (1978)
作風・主題
- 文体
- interdisciplinary and comparative analysistheoretical arguments grounded in historical contextuse of popular culture sources (e.g., dime novels)
- 頻出モチーフ
- frontier mythrepresentations in popular cultureformation of symbols and myths
評価・遺産
Henry Nash Smith is best known for Virgin Land, which helped establish the Myth and Symbol School and significantly shaped the development of American Studies. He was also a leading Mark Twain scholar and influenced generations of scholars.
関連学会
- Modern Language Association
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Philosophical Society
資料所蔵先
- The Bancroft Library (Henry Nash Smith Papers)
引用
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(His experience on the Southwest Review) was a sort of super-graduate seminar, an Institute of Higher Studies.
出典: The American Scholar (In Memoriam: The American Studies of Henry Nash Smith) (1987年)
豆知識
- Served as editor of the Southwest Review in the 1930s and helped keep it in publication.
- Married Elinor Lucas in 1956 and had three children.
- Died on June 6, 1986, following an automobile accident on May 30, 1986.
- Virgin Land is regarded as a foundational text of the Myth and Symbol School.