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Journal of Rehearsals: A Memoir by Wallace Fowlie
Contributor(s): Fowlie, Wallace (Author)
ISBN: 0822319454     ISBN-13: 9780822319450
Publisher: Duke University Press
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Product Type: Paperback
Published: April 1997
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Annotation: "This is a book for those who believe: in teachers, in literature, and in the power of the humanities to direct an individual toward a decent life."--Serge Gavronsky, "New York Times Book Review"

"[At] its deepest and most sincere level . . . [this] book is an account of a life lived for the understanding and elucidation of a literature. . . . Among American memoirs, the book has few companions."--Larry McMurtry, "Washington Post"

"Fowlie's journal is a meaningful record of the making of a humanist. . . . Fowlie gives us the portrait of a teacher in the full dimensions of the word, restoring to the image the dignity, the status, and sense of mission."--Anna Balakian, "The Nation
""Wallace Fowlie is a humanist who gratefully affirms the role of his bilingual literary university and aesthetic experience in shaping his world, a world of high and exigent values. . . . He reminds us that art and literature can shape and satisfy a sensibility."--Germaine Bree, Kenan Professor Emeritus of Humanities, Wake Forest University
"Wallace Fowlie gives the history of the preparation of the heart and mind which make the scholar. . . . The closest parallel I can think of to this book in America would be to say that "Journal of Rehearsals" combines the aims of "The Education of Henry Adams" with those of "Mont St. Michel and Chartres,""--Jay Martin, Professor of Government and Gould Professor of Humanities, Claremont-McKenna College
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Educators
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
Dewey: B
LCCN: 77079809
Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.14" W x 9.29" (0.88 lbs) 232 pages
 
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Renowned writer, critic, and teacher, Wallace Fowlie has devoted his life to the study and teaching of the French language and literature. Author and translator of thirty books, Fowlie's contributions include translations of Rimbaud (the complete works), Molier , Claudel, Baudelaire, and Cocteau, and literary studies of, among others, Rimbaud, Stendhal, Gide, and Mallarm . His widely acclaimed Journal of Rehearsals, originally published in 1977, is the first in his series of memoirs. In this passionate book, Fowlie explores his "love affair" with the literature and culture of France, and offers insights into his own intellectual and social life, his early love for the French language, and his encounters and relationships with an impressive cast of characters: Kenneth Burke, Jean Cocteau, Martha Graham, Henry Miller, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, and others.