Mark Van Doren (1894–1972)
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Insights into Literature by van Doren, Mark ; Jewett, Arno ; Achtenhagen, Olga ; Early, Margaret (1965) 7 kappaletta
The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer: A New Modern English Prose Translation (1971) 6 kappaletta
The new Invitation to learning 6 kappaletta
Home with Hazel and Other Stories 4 kappaletta
Collected stories 3 kappaletta
Morning Worship and Other Poems 3 kappaletta
The Oxford Book of American Prose — Toimittaja — 3 kappaletta
The transients 3 kappaletta
Man's Right to Knowledge & the Free Use Thereof 3 kappaletta
The Careless Clock: Poems About Children in the Family, signed by the American, author, poet and editor. (1947) 2 kappaletta
Sex Determination and Sexual Development, Volume 83 (Current Topics in Developmental Biology) (2008) 2 kappaletta
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 2 kappaletta
Selección de cuentos 2 kappaletta
Carl Sandburg: With a bibliography of Sandburg materials in the collections of the Library of Congress (1969) 2 kappaletta
Joy of being serious; address presented at the New Year convocation for students, University of Illinois. 2 kappaletta
The Mayfield deer 2 kappaletta
Harvest Poems: 1910-1960 2 kappaletta
Never, Never Ask His Name 1 kappale
Nobody Say a Word and Other Stories 1 kappale
ENJOYING POETRY 1 kappale
Collected Stories, Volume III 1 kappale
A Winter Diary and Other Poems 1 kappale
In That Far Land 1 kappale
The Transparent Tree 1 kappale
Walt Whitman 1 kappale
Wiliam Wordsworth--selected poetry 1 kappale
Mortal summer 1 kappale
The last look, and other poems 1 kappale
The Noble Voice 1 kappale
Home With Hazel and Other Short Stories 1 kappale
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Punaisen huoneen uni : vanha kiinalainen romaani : Hung lou meng (1791) — Esipuhe, eräät painokset — 795 kappaletta
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Avustaja — 405 kappaletta
As you like it ; A midsummer night's dream; The tempest ; Twelfth Night (1948) — Johdanto, eräät painokset — 283 kappaletta
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Avustaja — 153 kappaletta
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present (1959) — Avustaja — 55 kappaletta
Adventures of the Mind, from The Saturday Evening Post [First series] (1959) — Johdanto — 31 kappaletta
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 8, April 1981 — Avustaja — 3 kappaletta
The Selected Letters of William Cowper; (The Great letters series) (1951) — Toimittaja — 2 kappaletta
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 10, June 1977 — Avustaja — 1 kappale
Columbia poetry, 1936 — Toimittaja — 1 kappale
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Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- 1894-06-13
- Kuolinaika
- 1972-12-10
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Hope, Illinois, USA
- Kuolinpaikka
- Torrington, Connecticut, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Hope, Illinois, USA (birth)
Torrington, Connecticut, USA (death) - Koulutus
- Columbia University (PhD, 1920)
- Ammatit
- poet
teacher
literary critic - Suhteet
- Van Doren, Charles (son)
Van Doren, Carl (brother)
Van Doren, John (son) - Organisaatiot
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1940)
- Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (1967)
Emerson-Thoreau Medal (1963)
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Of the Don, Van Doren claims, “He is that rare thing in literature, a completely created character. He is so real that we cannot be sure we understand him.” Even someone who hasn’t read the book, but seen illustrations, knows Cervantes has paired him with an unlikely squire, Sancho Panza, hardly less memorable than the Don. Van Doren shows how the relationship evolves from master and servant to two friends who love each other.
Van Doren argues, based on Don Quixote’s moments of lucidity and the sagacity of his speeches, that, contrary to the repeated assertion in the book that he is mad, he is, on the contrary, aware of what he is doing. In this reading, the Don’s knight-errantry was a hoax meant to entertain and edify the world. When Don Quixote saw that he’d failed in this, he abandoned the hoax (473).
Similarly, Cervantes misdirects us about Sancho Panza. He is illiterate and seems to have only his next meal and a good night’s sleep in mind. Yet when given a chance to govern a town, he displays a native insight into human nature, to the astonishment of those around him, watching for him to fail.
Van Doren characterizes Don Quixote as two interconnected series: adventures and conversations. It is the adventures that stick in the popular imagination. Van Doren asserts, however, that more is “lost by ignoring the speaker” than the deeds.
Van Doren concludes that Don Quixote “is the most perfect knight that ever lived; the only one, in fact, we can believe.” Rather than achieving his avowed aim of destroying the literature of knight-errantry through satire, Cervantes has saved it. He produced “the one treatment of the subject that can be read forever.”… (lisätietoja)