Angus Fletcher (June 3, 1930 – November 28, 2016) was an American critic and literary scholar.[2]
Angus Fletcher | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 3, 1930 |
| Died | November 28, 2016 (aged 86)[1] Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| Education | B.A. and M.A. at Yale (1950, 1952); PhD at Harvard (1958) |
Biography
editAngus Fletcher was born in on June 23, 1930. He grew up mainly in East Hampton, Long Island and New York City. His parents were both Scottish. Father, Angus Fletcher, was a director of the British Library of Information in New York, and mother, Helen Stewar Fletcher, was a painter.[3]
He studied for B.A. and M.A. at Yale, and got a PhD in English Literature from Harvard. Throughout his career he taught at Columbia, UCLA, Buffalo, Cornell and Lehman College at CUNY Graduate Center.[3]
Books
edit- Allegory: The Theory of a Symbolic Mode. Cornell: Cornell University Press, 1964.
- The prophetic moment; an essay on Spencer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971. ISBN 0226253325
- The Transcendental Masque; an Essay on Milton's Comus. Ithaca-London: Cornell University Press, 1971. ISBN 080140620X
- Colors of the Mind: Conjectures on Thinking in Literature. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1991. ISBN 0-6741-4312-4
- A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of the Imagination. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-674-01988-1, 9780674019881
- Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007. ISBN 9780674023086
- The Topological Imagination. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2016. ISBN 9780674504561
References
edit- ^ "A Florilegium for Angus Fletcher". 12 February 2017.
- ^ "The British Society for Literature and Science · Angus Fletcher, Storythinking: The New Science of Narrative Intelligence".
- ^ a b "Angus Fletcher Obituary (2016) - New York, NY - New York Times". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
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