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Daniel R. Schwarz

January 31, 2023

Daniel R. Schwarz (born May 12, 1941) is Frederick J. Whiton Professor of English Literature and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University in the United States where he has taught since 1968. He is the author of eighteen significant books and numerous articles, many of which have appeared in prestigious journals and collections of essays. His recent book is Endtimes? Crises and Turmoil at the New York Times: 1999-2009 (2012) speaks to both scholarly and general audiences. He has directed nine NEH seminars and has lectured widely in the United States and abroad, including a number of lecture tours under the auspices of the academic programs of the USIS and the State Department. He was a founding member of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature and served as its President from 1990 to 1991. He has held three endowed visiting professorships (at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, 1989; the University of Hawaii, 1992–93; and the University of Alabama, Huntsville, 1996). He was a guest Fellow for short periods at Oxford (Brasenose) and Cambridge (Girton) in the UK. He has been the President of the Cornell Phi Beta Kappa chapter since 2009.

He has received recognition as an outstanding teacher. In 1998 he received Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences Russell award for distinguished teaching; the Weiss title, awarded by the University in 1999, further honors his teaching. His former graduate students and NEH participants have put together a festschrift in his honor. Its title--Reading Texts, Reading Live: Essays in the Tradition of Humanistic Cultural Criticism in Honor of Daniel R. Schwarz (University of Delaware Press, 2012)--testifies to Schwarz's influence as a teacher and scholar. In March 2018, Cornell celebrated his 50 years of teaching at the university with a conference in his honor. See: https://english.cornell.edu/50-years-transformative-teaching-celebrating-dan-schwarz

He has in recent years blogged for Huffington on current political and social issues and on higher education. His book, How to Succeed in College and Beyond (2016) developed in part from his Huffington and other articles.

Contributions

Theory

Schwarz is a humanist and a pluralist; his literary criticism takes account of the theoretical revolution while avoiding the abstractions of much modern critical theory in favor of a consideration of both context and text. What he calls his "mantra" summarizes his efforts to balance formalism and historical criticism: "Always the text; always historicize." Historical criticism, for Schwarz, may include a psychoanalytic emphasis which takes into account the author's quest for meaning within a text. He explains his perspective in The Case for a Humanistic Poetics: "Since humanistic criticism assumes that texts are by human authors for human readers about human subjects, a humanistic criticism is interested in how and why people think, write, act, and ultimately live." Schwarz has called his approach "humanistic formalism." He focuses on the process of reading, specifically how the reader responds to the structure of effects created by the author and how readers learn from literary texts. (See, for example, his 2008 Wiley-Blackwell Manifesto, In Defense of Reading)

In the 1980s and 1990s Schwarz was an important figure in the theoretical debates, arguing in The Humanistic Heritage: Critical Theories of the English Novel from James to Hillis Miller (1986) that there was an important methodological and theoretical approach underpinning Anglo-American modern criticism and providing close readings of major critics to prove this point. In his The Case for a Humanistic Poetics (1989), he carefully defined his own approach.

High Modernism

For decades, beginning with his two volume study of Conrad's complete works--Conrad: Almayer's Folly through Under Western Eyes (1980) and Conrad: Later Fiction (1982)--Schwarz has been an important figure in defining High Modernism and in closely reading major texts of that period. His Reading Joyce's Ulysses (1987; revised 2004) is still an influential work, and his Narrative and Representation in Wallace Stevens (1993) is an important contribution to the study of that poet. His work on modernism includes important articles on T.S. Eliot and Dylan Thomas. The Transformation of the English Novel, 1890-1930 (1989; revised 1995) and Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel, 1890-1930 (2005) discuss not only Conrad and Joyce, but also Hardy, Lawrence, Woolf, and Forster. Schwarz's editions of Joyce's "The Dead" and Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" are widely used in classes. Schwarz's Reconfiguring Modernism: Explorations in the Relationship Between Modern Art and Modern Literature (1997) made him a pivotal figure in developing the relationship between the literary and visual arts.

Holocaust and Jewish Studies

In Imagining the Holocaust (1999), a major study of books and films about the Holocaust including books by Elie Wiesel, Anne Frank, and Art Spiegelman and films by Claude Lanzmann and Steven Spielberg, Schwarz focuses on the relationship among memory, imagination, and narrative. Schwarz's interest in Jewish studies began with his Disraeli's Fiction (1979) and continued with his discussion of Bloom in Reading Joyce's Ulysses.

Cultural Studies

While maintaining his interest in the above fields, Schwarz has turned his attention to media culture and urban studies in Broadway Boogie Woogie: Damon Runyon and the Making of New York City Culture (2003) and in Endtimes? Crises and Turmoil at the New York Times: 1999-2009. He has also edited Damon Runyon: Guys and Dolls and other Writings for Penguin Classics (2008).

Biography

Schwarz holds a B.A. from Union College (New York) and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Brown University. His interests include travel, art museums, theater, and sports. He has two sons by his first marriage: David, the women's varsity tennis coach at Claremont College, and Jeffrey, currently working in the mutual fund industry. His wife, Marcia Jacobson, is retired from Auburn University; she is the Hargis Professor of American Literature Emerita.

Books

  • Reading the Modern European Novel from 1900 (Malden. MA; Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018)
  • How to Succeed in College and Beyond: The Art of Learning (Malden, MA; Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016; trans. into Mandarin with new ch. for Asian students, Beijing: Remnin, 2018)
  • Reading the European Novel to 1900 (Malden, MA; Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014; paperback 2018)
  • Endtimes? Crises and Turmoil at the New York Times: 1999-2009 (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2012; paperback edition with new Preface and new title, Endtimes? Crisis and Turmoil at the New York Times, 2014)
  • In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century (Malden, MA; Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2008)
  • Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel, 1890-1930 (Malden, MA; Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005)
  • Broadway Boogie Woogie: Damon Runyon and the Making of New York City Culture (New York: Palgrave Macmillan: New York and London, 2003)
  • Rereading Conrad (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2001)
  • Imagining the Holocaust (New York: St. Martin's Press; London: Macmillan, 1999)
  • Reconfiguring Modernism: Explorations in the Relationship Between Modern Art and Modern Literature (New York: St. Martin's Press; London: Macmillan, 1997)
  • Narrative and Representation in Wallace Stevens (New York: St. Martin's Press; London: Macmillan, 1993) Chosen by Choice as an outstanding book of 1993.
  • The Case for a Humanistic Poetics (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; London: Macmillan, 1991)
  • The Transformation of the English Novel, 1890-1930 (New York: St. Martin's Press; London: Macmillan, 1989; revised 1995)
  • Reading Joyce's "Ulysses" (New York: St. Martin's Press; London: Macmillan, 1987; revised 1991,2004)
  • The Humanistic Heritage: Critical Theories of the English Novel from James to Hillis Miller (Philadelphia, PA: University of Philadelphia Press; London: Macmillan, 1986; revised 1989)
  • Conrad: The Later Fiction (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press; London: Macmillan, 1982)
  • Conrad: "Almayer's Folly" through "under Western Eyes" (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press; London: Macmillan, 1980)
  • Disraeli's Fiction (New York: Barnes and Noble; London: Macmillan, 1979)

Editions

  • Ed., Damon Runyon: Guys and Dolls and other Writings (New York: Penguin, 2008)
  • General Ed., Reading the American and British Novel, 9 vols. (Malden, MA; Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 3 vols. published; 6 vols. forthcoming)
  • Consulting Ed., The Early Novels of Benjamin Disraeli, 6 vols. (London: Pickering and Chatto, LTD, 2004)
  • Ed., Joseph Conrad, "The Secret Sharer" (Boston; New York: Bedford/St. Martins [Beford Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism], 1997)
  • Ed., James Joyce, "The Dead" (Boston, New York: Bedford/St. Martins [Bedford Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism], 1994)
  • Ed., with Janice Carlise, Narrative and Culture (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1994; reissued 2010)

Poetry and Travel Articles

Schwarz has published over 90 poems, a short story that has been anthologized, and numerous travel articles. See his homepage: http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/drs6

January 31, 2023
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Daniel R Schwarz born May 12 1941 is Frederick J Whiton Professor of English Literature and Stephen H Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University in the United States where he has taught since 1968 He is the author of eighteen significant books and numerous articles many of which have appeared in prestigious journals and collections of essays His recent book is Endtimes Crises and Turmoil at theNew York Times 1999 2009 2012 speaks to both scholarly and general audiences He has directed nine NEH seminars and has lectured widely in the United States and abroad including a number of lecture tours under the auspices of the academic programs of the USIS and the State Department He was a founding member of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature and served as its President from 1990 to 1991 He has held three endowed visiting professorships at the University of Arkansas Little Rock 1989 the University of Hawaii 1992 93 and the University of Alabama Huntsville 1996 He was a guest Fellow for short periods at Oxford Brasenose and Cambridge Girton in the UK He has been the President of the Cornell Phi Beta Kappa chapter since 2009 He has received recognition as an outstanding teacher In 1998 he received Cornell s College of Arts and Sciences Russell award for distinguished teaching the Weiss title awarded by the University in 1999 further honors his teaching His former graduate students and NEH participants have put together a festschrift in his honor Its title Reading Texts Reading Live Essays in the Tradition of Humanistic Cultural Criticism in Honor of Daniel R Schwarz University of Delaware Press 2012 testifies to Schwarz s influence as a teacher and scholar In March 2018 Cornell celebrated his 50 years of teaching at the university with a conference in his honor See https english cornell edu 50 years transformative teaching celebrating dan schwarzHe has in recent years blogged for Huffington on current political and social issues and on higher education His book How to Succeed in College and Beyond 2016 developed in part from his Huffington and other articles Contents 1 Contributions 1 1 Theory 1 2 High Modernism 1 3 Holocaust and Jewish Studies 1 4 Cultural Studies 1 5 Biography 1 6 Books 1 7 Editions 1 8 Poetry and Travel ArticlesContributions EditTheory Edit Schwarz is a humanist and a pluralist his literary criticism takes account of the theoretical revolution while avoiding the abstractions of much modern critical theory in favor of a consideration of both context and text What he calls his mantra summarizes his efforts to balance formalism and historical criticism Always the text always historicize Historical criticism for Schwarz may include a psychoanalytic emphasis which takes into account the author s quest for meaning within a text He explains his perspective in The Case for a Humanistic Poetics Since humanistic criticism assumes that texts are by human authors for human readers about human subjects a humanistic criticism is interested in how and why people think write act and ultimately live Schwarz has called his approach humanistic formalism He focuses on the process of reading specifically how the reader responds to the structure of effects created by the author and how readers learn from literary texts See for example his 2008 Wiley Blackwell Manifesto In Defense of Reading In the 1980s and 1990s Schwarz was an important figure in the theoretical debates arguing in The Humanistic Heritage Critical Theories of the English Novel from James to Hillis Miller 1986 that there was an important methodological and theoretical approach underpinning Anglo American modern criticism and providing close readings of major critics to prove this point In his The Case for a Humanistic Poetics 1989 he carefully defined his own approach High Modernism Edit For decades beginning with his two volume study of Conrad s complete works Conrad Almayer s FollythroughUnder Western Eyes 1980 and Conrad Later Fiction 1982 Schwarz has been an important figure in defining High Modernism and in closely reading major texts of that period His Reading Joyce sUlysses 1987 revised 2004 is still an influential work and his Narrative and Representation in Wallace Stevens 1993 is an important contribution to the study of that poet His work on modernism includes important articles on T S Eliot and Dylan Thomas The Transformation of the English Novel 1890 1930 1989 revised 1995 and Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel 1890 1930 2005 discuss not only Conrad and Joyce but also Hardy Lawrence Woolf and Forster Schwarz s editions of Joyce s The Dead and Conrad s The Secret Sharer are widely used in classes Schwarz s Reconfiguring Modernism Explorations in the Relationship Between Modern Art and Modern Literature 1997 made him a pivotal figure in developing the relationship between the literary and visual arts Holocaust and Jewish Studies Edit In Imagining the Holocaust 1999 a major study of books and films about the Holocaust including books by Elie Wiesel Anne Frank and Art Spiegelman and films by Claude Lanzmann and Steven Spielberg Schwarz focuses on the relationship among memory imagination and narrative Schwarz s interest in Jewish studies began with his Disraeli s Fiction 1979 and continued with his discussion of Bloom in Reading Joyce sUlysses Cultural Studies Edit While maintaining his interest in the above fields Schwarz has turned his attention to media culture and urban studies in Broadway Boogie Woogie Damon Runyon and the Making of New York City Culture 2003 and in Endtimes Crises and Turmoil at theNew York Times 1999 2009 He has also edited Damon Runyon Guys and Dolls and other Writings for Penguin Classics 2008 Biography Edit Schwarz holds a B A from Union College New York and an M A and Ph D from Brown University His interests include travel art museums theater and sports He has two sons by his first marriage David the women s varsity tennis coach at Claremont College and Jeffrey currently working in the mutual fund industry His wife Marcia Jacobson is retired from Auburn University she is the Hargis Professor of American Literature Emerita Books Edit Reading the Modern European Novel from 1900 Malden MA Oxford UK Wiley Blackwell 2018 How to Succeed in College and Beyond The Art of Learning Malden MA Oxford UK Wiley Blackwell 2016 trans into Mandarin with new ch for Asian students Beijing Remnin 2018 Reading the European Novel to 1900 Malden MA Oxford UK Wiley Blackwell 2014 paperback 2018 Endtimes Crises and Turmoil at theNew York Times 1999 2009 Albany NY SUNY Press 2012 paperback edition with new Preface and new title Endtimes Crisis and Turmoil at theNew York Times 2014 In Defense of Reading Teaching Literature in the Twenty First Century Malden MA Oxford UK Blackwell 2008 Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel 1890 1930 Malden MA Oxford UK Wiley Blackwell 2005 Broadway Boogie Woogie Damon Runyon and the Making of New York City Culture New York Palgrave Macmillan New York and London 2003 Rereading Conrad Columbia MO University of Missouri Press 2001 Imagining the Holocaust New York St Martin s Press London Macmillan 1999 Reconfiguring Modernism Explorations in the Relationship Between Modern Art and Modern Literature New York St Martin s Press London Macmillan 1997 Narrative and Representation in Wallace Stevens New York St Martin s Press London Macmillan 1993 Chosen by Choice as an outstanding book of 1993 The Case for a Humanistic Poetics Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press London Macmillan 1991 The Transformation of the English Novel 1890 1930 New York St Martin s Press London Macmillan 1989 revised 1995 Reading Joyce s Ulysses New York St Martin s Press London Macmillan 1987 revised 1991 2004 The Humanistic Heritage Critical Theories of the English Novel from James to Hillis Miller Philadelphia PA University of Philadelphia Press London Macmillan 1986 revised 1989 Conrad The Later Fiction Atlantic Highlands NJ Humanities Press London Macmillan 1982 Conrad Almayer s Folly through under Western Eyes Ithaca NY Cornell University Press London Macmillan 1980 Disraeli s Fiction New York Barnes and Noble London Macmillan 1979 Editions Edit Ed Damon Runyon Guys and Dolls and other Writings New York Penguin 2008 General Ed Reading the American and British Novel 9 vols Malden MA Oxford UK Wiley Blackwell 3 vols published 6 vols forthcoming Consulting Ed The Early Novels of Benjamin Disraeli 6 vols London Pickering and Chatto LTD 2004 Ed Joseph Conrad The Secret Sharer Boston New York Bedford St Martins Beford Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism 1997 Ed James Joyce The Dead Boston New York Bedford St Martins Bedford Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism 1994 Ed with Janice Carlise Narrative and Culture Athens GA University of Georgia Press 1994 reissued 2010 Poetry and Travel Articles Edit Schwarz has published over 90 poems a short story that has been anthologized and numerous travel articles See his 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