Rogers, Franklin Robert

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ROGERS, Franklin Robert

ROGERS, Franklin Robert. American, b. 1921. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, professor of English, 1958-63; University of Lyon, France, Fulbright Professor in American literature, 1966-67, visiting professor of American literature, 1969- 71; University of Paris-Sorbonne, visiting professor of American literature, 197576; Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Burres-sur-Yvette, France, seminar lecturer, 1976; Kyoto American Studies Summer Seminar, seminar lecturer, 1986; San Jose State University, California, professor, 1967-87, professor emeritus of English, 1987-. Publications: Mark Twain's Burlesque Patterns, 1960; The Pattern for Mark Twain's Roughing It, 1961; Painting and Poetry: Form, Metaphor, and the Language of Literature, 1985; Occidental Ideographs: Image, Sequence, and Literary History, 1991; When the Fight Was Done: A Novel of the Maratha Wars, 2003. EDITOR: M. Twain, Simon Wheeler, Detective, 1963; Mark Twain's Satires and Burlesques, 1967; M. Twain, Roughing It, 1972. Address: 206 Woodland Ridge, Los Gatos, CA 95033-7810, U.S.A.

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