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Krutch, Joseph Wood
Krutch, Joseph Wood (1893–1970), born in Tennessee, graduated from the state university (1915), and received his Ph.D. from Columbia (1923). He was long on the faculty of Columbia (1925–31, 1937–52) and on the editorial staff of The Nation (1924–52) mainly as a drama critic. His books include Edgar Allan Poe: A Study in Genius (1926), an analytical biography employing psychoanalysis; The Modern Temper (1929), a pessimistic analysis of contemporary life, by a “modern intellectual” who finds that science has destroyed his faith in a beneficent universe, and psychology his belief in his own nobility, so that he “finds only in the pursuit of knowledge that which makes life worth living”; Five Masters: A Study in the Mutations of the Novel (1930), an analysis of Boccaccio, Cervantes, Richardson, Stendhal, and Proust, to determine whether their greatness springs from the life of their times or from an essential universality; scholarly biographies, Samuel Johnson (1944) and Thoreau (1948); and The Measure of Man (1954), a return to the themes of The Modern Temper, with a humanistic plea for “Moral Discourse.” After he moved to Arizona many of his books dealt with natural history, the Western scene, and a humanist's view of man and his environment, including The Desert Year (1952), The Great Chain of Life (1957), Human Nature and the Human Condition (1959), and The Forgotten Peninsula; A Naturalist in Baja California (1961). More Lives Than One (1962) recalls his varied experiences.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Krutch, Joseph Wood." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Krutch, Joseph Wood." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-KrutchJosephWood.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Krutch, Joseph Wood." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-KrutchJosephWood.html |
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Joseph Wood Krutch
Joseph Wood Krutch , 1893–1970, American author, editor, and teacher, b. Knoxville, Tenn., grad. Univ. of Tennessee, 1915, Ph.D. Columbia, 1923. He was on the editorial staff of the Nation (1924–52), and held a professorship at Columbia (1937–53). Highly regarded as a social and literary critic, Krutch's writings include Edgar Allan Poe: A Study in Genius (1926), The Modern Temper (1929), Samuel Johnson (1944), and Henry David Thoreau (1948). After he moved to Arizona, he turned to the study of nature; his books in this field include The Twelve Seasons (1949) and The Voice of the Desert: A Naturalist's Interpretation (1955).
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"Joseph Wood Krutch." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Joseph Wood Krutch." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Krutch-J.html "Joseph Wood Krutch." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Krutch-J.html |
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Krutch, Joseph Wood
Krutch, Joseph Wood (1893–1970), critic. Born in Knoxville, he earned degrees at the University of Tennessee and Columbia, where he taught for many years. From 1924 to 1952 he was also drama critic for The Nation. Among his many works on theatre are The American Drama Since 1918 (1939), and ‘Modernism’ in Modern Drama (1953). Krutch's interest was not so much in the presentation and immediacy of plays as in their value as enduring literature.
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Krutch, Joseph Wood." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Krutch, Joseph Wood." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-KrutchJosephWood.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Krutch, Joseph Wood." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-KrutchJosephWood.html |
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