Harold B. Segel
Harold Bernard Segel (September 13, 1930 – March 16, 2016) was professor emeritus of Slavic literatures and of comparative literature at Columbia University.[1]
Segel was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and attended Boston Latin School. He majored in Modern Languages at Boston College (BS, 1951) and did graduate work at Harvard University (PhD, 1955).[2][3]
Works
[edit]- The Literature of Eighteenth-Century Russia: A History and Anthology (1967)
- The Major Comedies of Alexander Fredro (1969)
- The Baroque Poem: A Comparative Survey (1974)
- Twentieth-Century Russian Drama from Gorky to the Present (1979)
- Turn-of the-Century Cabaret: Berlin, Munich, Paris, Barcelona, Vienna, Krakow, St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Zurich (1987)
- Renaissance Culture in Poland. The Rise of Humanism, 1470–1543 (1989)
- The Vienna Coffeehouse Wits 1890-1938 (1995)
- Pinocchio's Progeny : Puppets, Marionettes, Automatons, and Robots in Modernist and Avant-Garde Drama (1995)
- Death of Tarelkin and Other Plays: The Trilogy of Alexander Sukhovo Kobylin (1996) editor
- Stranger in Our Midst: Images of the Jew in Polish Literature (1996) editor
- Egon Erwin Kisch, the Raging Reporter (1997)
- Polish Romantic Drama: Three Plays in English Translation (1997) editor
- Body Ascendant: Modernism and the Physical Imperative (1998)
- The Columbia Guide to the Literature of Eastern Europe Since 1945 (2003)
Notes
[edit]- ^ "Harold B. Segel's Obituary". The New York Times. March 2016. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
- ^ Segel, The Literature of Eighteenth-Century Russia: A History and Anthology, author bio.
- ^ Christine Nasso (ed.), Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Volumes 21-24 (Gale, 1976; ISBN 0810300338), p. 781.
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