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Stendhal
Book by Wood, Michael
256 pages, Paperback
Published May 1, 1971
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Michael Wood
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Michael Wood born in Lincoln, England, is the Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and Professor of comparative literature at Princeton University. He is an alumnus of St John's College, Cambridge.
Prior to teaching to Princeton, he taught at Columbia University, and at the University of Exeter in Devon, England.
He was Director of the Gauss Seminars in Criticism at Princeton from 1995-2001, and chaired Princeton's English department from 1998 to 2004. He writes regularly for The New York Review of Books and on film for the London Review of Books.
Michael Wood born in Lincoln, England, is the Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and Professor of comparative literature at Princeton University. He is an alumnus of St John's College, Cambridge.
Prior to teaching to Princeton, he taught at Columbia University, and at the University of Exeter in Devon, England.
He was Director of the Gauss Seminars in Criticism at Princeton from 1995-2001, and chaired Princeton's English department from 1998 to 2004. He writes regularly for The New York Review of Books and on film for the London Review of Books.
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October 31, 2021
A book of literary criticism like no other I've encountered. A book as a box of paradoxes. If you've ever wondered what the hell Stendhal thinks he's doing; this may be a good place to start. Each work- even or especially the unfinished ones- is analysed and compared not only with other works of Stendhal but the work of other writers. Ultimately it inspires the reader to return to Stendhal- which is not a bad thing.
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