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Morris Dickstein (born February 23, 1940) is an American literary scholar, cultural historian, professor, essayist, book critic, and public intellectual. He is currently Distinguished Professor of English at CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. A leading scholar of 20th Century American literature, film, literary criticism, and popular culture, Dickstein’s work has appeared in both the popular press and academic journals, including ''The New York Times Book Review'', ''Partisan Review'', ''TriQuarterly'', ''The New Republic'', ''The Nation'', '' Harper’s'', ''New York Magazine'', ''Critical Inquiry'', '' Dissent'', ''The Times Literary Supplement'', ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'', '' Slate'', and ''Bookforum''. Dickstein was a contributing editor to ''Partisan Review'' from 1972-2003 and a member of the board of directors for the National Book Critics Circle.〔Banks, Eric. "Critical Library: Morris Dickstein." ''Critical Mass: The Blog of the National Book Critics Circle Board of Directors.'' 3 October 2009. Accessed 1 October 2014 ()〕 He is a member of the National Society of Film Critics and former president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics.〔''ALSCW.org''. "Local Meeting in New York City." 19 December 2012. Accessed 10 October 2014. ()〕 Dickstein is the author of several books on American literature and culture, including ''Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties'' (1977), which was named one of the “Best Books of 1977” by ''The New York Times Book Review'';〔''LibraryThing.'' "New York Times Best Book Books of the Year." Accessed 15 October 2014. ()〕 ''Double Agent: The Critic and Society'' (1992); ''Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945 – 1970'' (2002); ''A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World'' (2005); and ''Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression'' (2009), which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.〔(The National Book Critics Circle Awards, 2009 )〕 The late author Norman Mailer called Dickstein “one of our best and most distinguished critics of American literature.”〔Mailer, Norman. Cover Quote for Dickstein, Morris. ''A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World.'' Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2005. ()〕 ==Early Life and Education== Dickstein was born in New York City to Jewish émigrés from Europe. He grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and was raised Orthodox Jewish. Dickstein attended a Yeshiva for 12 years before doing his undergraduate work at Columbia University. During this period Dickstein also attended the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) in order to “modernize” the Hebrew education he had received during his time at the Yeshiva. At JTS, Dickstein studied under Abraham Joshua Heschel. Moving away from Orthodox Judaism, Dickstein dropped out of the Seminary after three and half years, during his final semester of undergraduate work at Columbia.〔Boynton, Robert. "Between Generations: A Conversation with Morris Dickstein." ''Minnesota Review'' 55-56 (2002). ()〕 Initially thinking he would become a journalist or lawyer, during his sophomore year at Columbia Dickstein read Jacques Barzun’s ''Teacher in America'' and Lionel Trilling’s ''The Liberal Imagination''. These works convinced him that he could continue to do professionally what he loved to do as a student—read and write about literature. ''The Liberal Imagination'' introduced Dickstein to “literary criticism as an art and a calling.”〔 Dickstein graduated from Columbia with a B.A. in 1961. He received his PhD from Yale in 1967. Harold Bloom directed Dickstein’s dissertation, entitled ''The Divided Self: A Study of Keats’ Poetic Development''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Morris Dickstein」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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