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Philip Fisher

フィリップ・フィッシャー

Firippu Fisshā

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1941
Nationality
United States
Languages
English

Career

Occupations
Professor of English and American Literature, Author
Active Years
1963-
Affiliations
Harvard University

Education

University of Pittsburgh
Degree: A.B.
Year of Graduation: 1963
Country: United States
Harvard University
Department of English
Degree: M.A.
Year of Graduation: 1966
Country: United States
Harvard University
Department of English
Degree: Ph.D.
Year of Graduation: 1971
Country: United States

Awards

Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism
2000
Work: Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction
Organization: University of Iowa
Result: co-winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Vehement Passions

2002 Literary Criticism

Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction

1999 Literary Criticism

Wonder, the Rainbow and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences

1998 Literary Criticism

Making and Effacing Art

1991 Literary Criticism

Hard Facts

1986 Literary Criticism

Making Up Society

1981 Literary Criticism

Bibliography

  • The Vehement Passions
  • Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction
  • Wonder, the Rainbow and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences
  • Making and Effacing Art
  • Hard Facts
  • Making Up Society

Legacy

The Felice Crowl Reid Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University and an author who co-won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism.