33:, where he has taught since 1968. 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
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249:. 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.
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88:: "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
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chapter since 2009. He is the author of eighteen significant books and numerous articles, many of which have appeared in prestigious journals and collections of essays.
150:(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.
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Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel, 1890-1930
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