Berman, Jeffrey

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BERMAN, Jeffrey

BERMAN, Jeffrey. American, b. 1945. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Writing/Journalism. Career: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, lecturer in English, 1971-73; State University of New York at Albany, assistant professor, 1973-79, associate professor, 1979-88, professor of English, 1988-; writer. Publications: Joseph Conrad: Writing as Rescue, 1977; The Talking Cure: Literary Representations of Psychoanalysis, 1985; Narcissism and the Novel, 1990; Diaries to an English Professor, 1994; Surviving Literary Suicide, 1999; Risky Writing: Self-Disclosure and Self-Transformation in the Classroom, 2001. Address: Department of English, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY 12222, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]