Quinones, Ricardo J(oseph)

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QUINONES, Ricardo J(oseph)

QUINONES, Ricardo J(oseph). American, b. 1935. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA, assistant professor, became associate professor beginning in 1963, served as associate professor ending in 1975, professor of English and comparative literature, 1975-, chairperson of literature department, 1977-80. National Endowment for the Arts Younger fellow, 1968-69; visiting professor at City University of New York graduate center, 1970-71; visiting fellow at Villaci Tatti, Florence, Italy, 1981. Publications: The Renaissance Discovery of Time, 1972; Dante Alighieri, 1979; Mapping Literary Modernism: Time and Development, 1985; (ed., with M. Chefdor and A. Wachtel) Modernism: Challenges and Perspectives, 1986; The Changes of Cain: Violence and the Lost Brother in Cain and Abel Literature, 1991; Foundation Sacrifice in Dante's Commedia, 1994. Address: Department of Comparative Literature, Claremont McKenna College, 890 Columbia Ave., Claremont, CA 91711, U.S.A.