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Angus Fletcher
Born(1930-06-03)June 3, 1930
DiedNovember 28, 2016(2016-11-28) (aged 86)[1]
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Angus Fletcher (June 3, 1930 – November 28, 2016) was an American critic and literary scholar.[2]

Biography

Angus Fletcher was born in on June 23, 1930. He grew up mainly in East Hampton, Long Island and New York City. His parents were both Scottish. Father, Angus Fletcher, was a director of the British Library of Information in New York, and mother, Helen Stewar Fletcher, was a painter.

He studied for B.A. and M.A. at Yale, and got a PhD in English Literature from Harvard. Throughout his career he taught at Columbia, UCLA, Buffalo, Cornell and Lehman College at CUNY Graduate Center.

Books

  • Allegory: The Theory of a Symbolic Mode. Cornell: Cornell University Press, 1964.
  • Colors of the Mind: Conjectures on Thinking in Literature. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1991. ISBN 0-6741-4312-4
  • A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of the Imagination. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-674-01988-1, 9780674019881
  • Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007. ISBN 9780674023086
  • The Topological Imagination. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2016. ISBN 9780674504561

References