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David I Grossvogel Biography (1925-)

Addresses: Office: 282 Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca,NY, 14853.

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Occupation

critic, writer, educator

Birth Details

June 19, 1925

San Francisco, California

Famous Works

• Educational
• Instructor, Columbia University, 1954-56; Assistant Professor, Harvard University, 1956-60; Associate Professor, Cornell University, 1960-64; Professor, Cornell University, 1964; First Goldwin Smith Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies, Cornell University, 1970-present.
• Editorial
• Managing Editor, Romantic Review, 1954-56; Founder/Editor, Diacritics, 1971-76;
• Books, Published
• The Self Conscious Stage, 1958, reprinted as Twentieth-CenturyFrench Drama, 1961; Four Playwrights and a Postscript, 1962, reprinted as The Blasphemers, 1964; Limits of the Novel: Evolutions of aForm from Chaucer to Robbe-Grillet, 1968 and 1971; Divided We Stand:Reflections on the Crisis at Cornell, with C. Strout, 1970 and 1971; Mystery and Its Fictions: From Oedipus to Agatha Christie, 1979.
• Articles
• "A Belgian Notebook," Alumni, (Brussels), 1953; "New Departures inContemporary Comedy," RR, 1954; "The Play of Light and Shadow," YFS, 1956-57; "Pierre Reverdy: The Fabric of Reality," YFS, 1958; "The French Dramatist," The Saturday Review, 1958; "The Depths of Laughter." YFS, 1959; "Ritual and Circumstance in Modern French Drama," L'Esprit Créateur, 1962; "Jean Genet: The Difficulty of Defining," YFS, 1962; "Claudel," Encyclopedia of World Literature, 1967; "Perception as a Form of Phenomenological Criticism, "Hartford Studiesin Literature, 1970; "Fellini's Satyricon," Diacritics, 1971;"Visconti and the Too, Too Solid Flesh," Diacritics, 1971; "Some Reasons for the Phenomenon of the New," KRO, 1971; "Bunuel's ObssessedCamera," Diacritics, 1972; "When the Stain Won't Wash: Polanski's Macbeth," Diacritics, 1972; "Blow-up: The Forms of an Esthetic Itinerary." Diacritics, 1972; "Truffaut and Roché," Diacritics, 1973; "Show and Tell: Movies, Movie Making," Diacritics, 1973; "Conversation with A. R. Ammons," Diacritics, 1973; "Ionesco et l'absurde," Chapter III in Ionesco, Garneier: Les Critiques de notre temps, 1973; "Sinews of Revolution: The Revolutionary, the Artist, and Death," Diacritics, 1974; "Desnoes and Gutiérrez Alea." Diacritics, 1974; "Recuperating the Political Film," Diacritics, 1975; "Heads or Tails: Women in American Movies and Society," Diacritics, 1975;"Signs of Our Times." Diacritics, 1976; "Lina Wertmüller and theFailure of Criticism," YIS, 1977; "Semi-optics: Lotman and Cinema," Journal of the University Film Association, 1980; "Avant que l'escés n'excéde," Michel de Ghelderode et le théatre contemporain, Brussels: S.I.D.E.M.D.G., 1980; "The Wake of Daedalus: Further Discontents of an Ever More Pervasive Civilization," Diacritics, 1980; "Ionesco: Symptom and Victim," The Dream and the Play, 1982; "The Long Life and Surprising Afterdeath of Agatha Christie," (forthcoming).
• Reviews
• Entries on Cammaerts, Crommelynck, Ghelderode, Lemonnier, Mallet-Joris, Rodenbach, Verhaeren, Belgian literature, for Arete's Encyclopedia,1978; "Adam's After Joyce," Georgia Review, 1978; "Girard's Critique dans un souterrain," MLN, 1978; "Bombert's The RomanticPrison," MLN, 1979; "Vais: L'Ecrivain scenique;" CanadianReview of Comparative Literature, 1981; "Porter's Pursuit of Crime," CL, 1983.