Friedman, Alan Warren

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FRIEDMAN, Alan Warren

FRIEDMAN, Alan Warren. American, b. 1939. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: Professor of English, University of Texas, Austin, since 1976 (Instructor, 1964-66; Assistant Professor, 1966-69; Associate Professor, 1969-76; Chair, Faculty Senate, 1987-89). Publications: Lawrence Durrell and The Alexandria Quartet: Art for Love's Sake, 1970; Multivalance: The Moral Quality of Form in the Modern Novel, 1978; William Faulkner, 1984; Fictional Death and the Modernist Enterprise, 1994. EDITOR: Forms of Modern British Fiction: A Symposium, 1975; (ed. with C. Rossman) Mario Vargas Llosa: A Collection of Critical Essays, 1978; (with C. Rossman and D. Sherzer) Beckett Translating/Translating Beckett, 1987; (with E. Carton) Situating College English: Lessons from an American University, 1996; Beckett in Black and Red: The Translations for Nancy Cunard's Negro Anthology, 2000. Address: Dept. of English, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, U.S.A. Online address: friedman@uts.cc.utexas.edu

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