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Susan Stewart is a MacArthur Fellow and the Regan Professor in English at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches the history of poetry and aesthetics. Her books of poetry are Yellow Stars and Ice, The Hive, The Forest and the just-issued Columbarium. She is the author of a number of works of literary criticism, including Nonsense: Aspects of Intertextuality in Folklore and Literature; On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection; and Crimes of Writing. Her most recent critical book, Poetry and the Fate of the Senses won the 2002 Christian Gauss Award for Literary Criticism from Phi Beta Kappa. With Wesley Smith, she has translated Euripides' Andromache for the Oxford University Press New Classics in Translation series, and with Brunella Antomarini she translated the poetry and prose of the Scuola Romana painter Scipione, published by Charta in 2002. She and the Australian poet John Kinsella recently co-edited a special issue of TriQuarterly on "New Pastoral" and next year Chicago University Press will publish a collection of her art writings titled The Open Studio: Essays on Art and Aesthetics 1987-2003. Link to Paper Abstract; Link to Publisher Site; Link to Homepage |
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