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Next Event - Sunday, March 21st at 3 PM - Lawrence Rosenwald, discusses his new Library of America 2 volume set of "Emerson's Journals"

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Lawrence Rosenwald "Emerson's Journals"

Sun, 03/21/2010 - 3:00pm

Please join us March 21st at 3 PM, as we welcome Lawrence Rosenwald, discussing the new Library of America 2 volume set of Emerson's Journals.

Lawrence Rosenwald Professor of English at Wellesley College, joined the Wellesley faculty in 1980. From 1993 to 1997 he was the Whitehead Associate Professorship in Critical Thought. In 1997, he became the Anne Pierce Rogers Professor of American Literature.

Before his arrival, he had been a Harper Fellow at the University of Chicago (1978-80), and an Adjunct Lecturer at Lehman College (1973-77). He received his B.A. (1970), M.A. (1971) and Ph.D. (1979) from Columbia University.

Professor Rosenwald's chief intellectual interests include American literature, especially the American literary representation of language and dialect contact; the theory and practice of translation; the relations between words and music; early music theater; and pacifism and nonviolence. Scripture and Translation, his translation of Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig's Die Schrift und ihre Verdeutschung, was published by Indiana University Press in 1994; his Emerson and the Art of the Diary was published by Oxford University Press in 1988. Among his more recent publications are "On Not Reading in Translation," in Antioch Review; "Orwell, Pacifism, Pacifists," in Thomas Cushman and John Rodden ed., George Orwell Into the 21st Century, published by Paradigm Press; and "American Anglophone Literature and Multilingual America," in Werner Sollors ed., Multilingual America, published by New York University Press. Forthcoming is a translation of Lamed Shapiro's "Nuyorkish"; ongoing projects include a book on American literature and multilingual America, and an essay on pacifism.

Professor Rosenwald has also written and performed numerous verse scripts for early music theater pieces, and regularly coaches singers on language and text at the Amherst Early Music Festival and Workshop.

Lawrence Rosenwald lives with his wife, Cynthia Schwan, in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Emerson Selected Journals 1841-1877 (Hardcover)

By Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lawrence Rosenwald
$40.00
ISBN-13: 9781598530681
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Library of America, 04/01/2010

Ralph Waldo Emerson Selected Journals, 1820-1842 (Hardcover)

By Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lawrence Rosenwald
$40.00
ISBN-13: 9781598530674
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Library of America, 03/01/2010

Multilingual America: Language and the Making of American Literature (Paperback)

By Lawrence Rosenwald
$31.00
ISBN-13: 9780521721615
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Cambridge University Press, 11/01/2008
Location: 
The Concord Bookshop
65 Main St
Concord, Massachusetts

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