Seth Lerer
Autore di Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language
Sull'Autore
Seth Lerer is Distinguished Professor of Literature and the former Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of California, San Diego. He is known nationally for his audio and videotape series, The History of the English Language, for the Teaching Company.
Fonte dell'immagine: Stanford University
Opere di Seth Lerer
Philology and criticism at Yale 1 copia
Chaucer’s English 1 copia
Opere correlate
The King James Version at 400: Assessing Its Genius as Bible Translation and Its Literary Influence (2013) — Collaboratore — 9 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1955-11-10
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- Wesleyan University (BA|1976)
Oxford University (BA|1978)
University of Chicago (PhD|1981) - Attività lavorative
- professor
administrator - Organizzazioni
- Princeton University
Stanford University (professor)
University of California, San Diego (Dean of Arts and Humanities) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- National Book Critics Circle Award (in Criticism (2008))
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 29
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 949
- Popolarità
- #27,107
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 14
- ISBN
- 59
- Lingue
- 2
- Preferito da
- 1
published: 2013 (?)
format: 6:10 audible audiobook
acquired: audible unlimited listened: Jan 25 – Feb 1
rating: 4
genre/style: Lectures theme: Chaucer
locations: 14th century England
about the author: A Distinguished Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego, born in Brooklyn, 1955.
Seth Lerer is notable expert on Chaucer, cited, for example, by [[Marion Turner]] in a recent biography of Chaucer. This is a nice fast-paced entertaining overview. He gets to the heart of Chaucer without getting sidetracked by details. He reads Chaucer out loud in a very charming accent, which might be worth listening by itself, and he teaches the listener how to read Chaucer out loud. He stays big picture and selective. So don't expect much depth. I would liked to have learned a little more about Chaucer's contemporary poets and how his writing accent fit in with the different English dialects of the time. (Turner touches on this). But these are beyond the scope. I did get a sense of his language, and his themes, and that was terrific.
Also, I really enjoyed listening to Lerer. Recommended.
2023
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