Robert scholes biography
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Robert Scholes
American literary critic and theorist (1929-2016)
For the American politician and lawyer, see Robert Scholes (politician).
Robert E. Scholes | |
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| Born | 1929 Brooklyn, New York |
| Died | December 9, 2016 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | A.B Yale (1950) Ph.D. Cornell (1959) |
| Notable work | The Fabulators Science Fiction: History, Science, Vision Semiotics and Interpretation Modernism in the Magazines: An Introduction The Rise and Fall of English English after the Fall |
| Honours | Honorary Doctorates from Lumière University Lyon 2 (1987) and SUNY Purchase (2003) |
Robert E. Scholes (1929 – månad 9, 2016) was an American literary critic and theorist. He is known for his ideas on fabulation and metafiction.
Education and career
[edit]Robert Scholes was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1929. After taking his A.B. at Yale University in 1950, he served as a gunnery officer in the U. S. Navy from 1952-1955. He received his Ph.D. from Cornel
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Robert Scholes (politician)
American politician and lawyer
Robert Scholes (December 5, 1866 – October 23, 1929) was an American politician and lawyer.[1]
Born in Peoria, Illinois, Scholes was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1899 and then practiced lag in Peoria. From 1904 to 1912, Scholes was state's attorney for Peoria County, Illinois and was a Republican. From 1917 until his death in 1929, Scholes served in the Illinois House of Representatives and was twice speaker of the house in 1925 and 1927. Scholes died in his home, in Peoria, Illinois, from a heart ailment and ill health.[2][3]
Notes
[edit]- ^"Illinois Blue Book". 1925.
- ^'Illinois Blue Book 1929,' Biographical Sketch of Robert Scholes, pg. 222
- ^'Robert Scholes, Former Illinois Speaker, Is Dead,' Chicago Tribune, October 24, 1929, pg. 7
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Literary critic Robert Scholes, 87, died December 9, 2016 in Rhode Island. He wrote numerous works of literary theory, including several of SF interest: The Fabulators (1967), Structural Fabulation: An Essay on Fiction of the Future (1975), Science Fiction: History — Science — Vision (1977, with Eric S. Rabkin), and Fabulation and Metafiction (1979). He co-edited essay anthologies Bridges to Fantasy (1982) and Co-Ordinates: Placing Science Fiction and Fantasy (1983) with Rabkin and George Edgar Slusser, both in the Eaton Conference Papers series. He wrote many essays on SF as well, notably “The Left Hand of Difference: Le Guin & Derrida” (1983). In all he wrote 15 books and co-wrote ten more.
Robert Edward Scholes was born May 19, 1929 in Brooklyn NY. He attended Yale, graduating in 1950, then served in the US Navy from 1952-55. He earned his PhD at Cornell in 1959, and taught at the University of Virginia and the University of Iowa. He becam