Michael North (professor)
Encyclopedia
Michael North is an American
literary critic and a professor in the department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles
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in 1973 and Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut
in 1980. North taught at the College of William and Mary
before joining the University of California, Los Angeles
in 1991.
United States
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literary critic and a professor in the department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...
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Background
North received a B.A. from Stanford UniversityStanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
in 1973 and Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut
University of Connecticut
The admission rate to the University of Connecticut is about 50% and has been steadily decreasing, with about 28,000 prospective students applying for admission to the freshman class in recent years. Approximately 40,000 prospective students tour the main campus in Storrs annually...
in 1980. North taught at the College of William and Mary
College of William and Mary
The College of William & Mary in Virginia is a public research university located in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States...
before joining the University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...
in 1991.
Publications
- Machine-Age Comedy, 2009
- Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century WordCamera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century WordCamera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word is a work of literary and cultural studies by Michael North, a professor of English at UCLA...
, 2005 - Reading 1922: A Return to the Scene of the Modern, 2002
- The Waste LandThe Waste LandThe Waste Land[A] is a 434-line[B] modernist poem by T. S. Eliot published in 1922. It has been called "one of the most important poems of the 20th century." Despite the poem's obscurity—its shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time, its...
: A Norton Critical Edition, 2000 (editor) - The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature, 1994
- The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound, 1992
- Henry Green and the Writing of His Generation,1984