Mark Van Doren (1894–1972)
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Insights into Literature by van Doren, Mark ; Jewett, Arno ; Achtenhagen, Olga ; Early, Margaret (1965) 7 Exemplare
The new Invitation to learning 6 Exemplare
The Oxford Book of American Prose — Herausgeber — 4 Exemplare
Home with Hazel and Other Stories 4 Exemplare
Morning Worship and Other Poems 3 Exemplare
The transients 3 Exemplare
Collected stories 3 Exemplare
Man's Right to Knowledge & the Free Use Thereof 3 Exemplare
Carl Sandburg: With a bibliography of Sandburg materials in the collections of the Library of Congress (1969) 2 Exemplare
Sex Determination and Sexual Development, Volume 83 (Current Topics in Developmental Biology) (2008) 2 Exemplare
Selección de cuentos 2 Exemplare
Joy of being serious; address presented at the New Year convocation for students, University of Illinois. 2 Exemplare
The Mayfield deer 2 Exemplare
The Careless Clock: Poems About Children in the Family, signed by the American, author, poet and editor. (1947) 2 Exemplare
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 2 Exemplare
Harvest Poems: 1910-1960 2 Exemplare
Nobody Say a Word and Other Stories 1 Exemplar
In That Far Land 1 Exemplar
Collected Stories, Volume III 1 Exemplar
Never, Never Ask His Name 1 Exemplar
The Noble Voice 1 Exemplar
The last look, and other poems 1 Exemplar
Mortal summer 1 Exemplar
A Winter Diary and Other Poems 1 Exemplar
Wiliam Wordsworth--selected poetry 1 Exemplar
Walt Whitman 1 Exemplar
The Transparent Tree 1 Exemplar
ENJOYING POETRY 1 Exemplar
Home With Hazel and Other Short Stories 1 Exemplar
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The dream of the red chamber = Hung lou mêng : a Chinese novel of the early Ching period (1791) — Preface, einige Ausgaben — 761 Exemplare
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Mitwirkender — 407 Exemplare
4 Plays: As You Like It; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Tempest; Twelfth Night (1948) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben — 283 Exemplare
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Mitwirkender — 153 Exemplare
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present (1959) — Mitwirkender — 55 Exemplare
Adventures of the Mind, from The Saturday Evening Post [First series] (1959) — Einführung — 31 Exemplare
The Three Readers: Clifton Fadiman, Sinclair Lewis, Carl Van Doren (1943) — Mitwirkender — 8 Exemplare
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 8, April 1981 — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
The Selected Letters of William Cowper; (The Great letters series) (1951) — Herausgeber — 2 Exemplare
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 10, June 1977 — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Columbia poetry, 1936 — Herausgeber — 1 Exemplar
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Wissenswertes
- Geburtstag
- 1894-06-13
- Todestag
- 1972-12-10
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Hope, Illinois, USA
- Sterbeort
- Torrington, Connecticut, USA
- Wohnorte
- Hope, Illinois, USA (birth)
Torrington, Connecticut, USA (death) - Ausbildung
- Columbia University (PhD, 1920)
- Berufe
- poet
teacher
literary critic - Beziehungen
- Van Doren, Charles (son)
Van Doren, Carl (brother)
Van Doren, John (son) - Organisationen
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1940)
- Preise und Auszeichnungen
- 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.”… (mehr)