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Harold B. Segel

Harold B. Segel

American literature professor

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

  • 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

  1. [1]
    "Harold B. Segel's Obituary". The New York Times. March 2016. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
  2. [2]
    Segel, The Literature of Eighteenth-Century Russia: A History and Anthology, author bio.
  3. [3]
    Christine Nasso (ed.), Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Volumes 21-24 (Gale, 1976; ISBN 0810300338), p. 781.


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