Ira Nadel
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Born | Ira Bruce Nadel July 22, 1943 |
Nationality | Canadian |
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Occupation | Professor of English at University of British Columbia |
Known for | Biography, literary criticism |
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Ira Bruce Nadel (born July 22, 1943) is an
Life and career
Nadel was born on July 22, 1943, in Rahway, New Jersey,[1] the son of Isaac David and Francis (Sofman) Nadel. He received a BA in 1965 and an MA in 1967 from Rutgers University, New Jersey, and a PhD in English in 1970 from Cornell University.[2][3] He joined the University of British Columbia as an assistant professor, was promoted to associate professor in 1977, and then to professor of English in 1985. He was chair of the Department of English graduate program from 1992 to 1995. As of 2004, he was a coeditor of the David Mamet Review, an advisory board member of The Journal of Modern Literature and Joyce Studies Annual, and an editorial board member of English Literature in Transition[2] and Autobiographical/Biographical Studies.[4] He is known in British Columbia as a long-serving book critic for CBC Radio's afternoon show.[1]
Personal life and views
Nadel's first marriage on June 5, 1966, ended when his wife died on February 23, 1975. He has two children from his second marriage, on July 4, 1976, to Josephine Margolis, a lawyer.
Work
Nadel's book, Leon Uris: Life of a Best Seller, was the first full-length
Nadel published Joyce and the Jews in 1989, the first book to appear in print tackling the topic. The book explored both Joyce's personal relations with Jews and the influence of
Nadel's biography of
Nadel co-edited The Victorian Muse, Gertrude Stein, The Making of Literature and a collection of previously unpublished Ezra Pound letters. He has also edited the Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, and organized conferences about the work of Joyce. He has edited an Oxford reprint of the American classic, The Education of Henry Adams, and Iolani: or, Tahiti as it was, by Wilkie Collins. Nadel is also the author of Tom Stoppard: A Life, on the prolific British theater playwright.
Literary style
Nadel depended on
In his literary criticism, Nadel analyzes text content. He thinks of texts as riddles, and in writing about Joyce, has looked at intertextual connections between Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend and Joyce's Finnegans Wake.[16]:8
Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1996.[17]
- Distinguished University Scholar, University of British Columbia.[17]
- Killiam Faculty Research Fellowship in 1994.[17]
- Killiam Research Prize in 1992.[17]
- UBC Medal for Canadian Biography in 1996.[18][19]
- Times of London top seven best books in theater and film in 2008 for David Mamet: A Life in the Theatre.[8]
Works
Authored:
- Biography: Fiction, Fact & Form (London: Macmillan, 1984)
- Joyce and the Jews: Culture and Texts (London: Macmillan, 1989)
- Leonard Cohen (ECW Press, 1994)
- Various Positions, A Life of Leonard Cohen (Random House, 1996)
- Tom Stoppard: A Life (St. Martin's Press, 2002)
- Ezra Pound: A Literary Life (NY: Palgrave/ Macmillan, 2004)
- David Mamet: A Life in the Theatre (NY: Palgrave/ Macmillan, 2008)
- Critical Companion to Philip Roth (Facts on File, 2011)
- Philip Roth: A Counterlife (Oxford University Press, 2021)
Editor of:[1]
- Wilkie Collins, Ioláni, or Tahiti as it was (Princeton University Press, 1999)
- Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (Oxford University Press, 1999)
- The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
- Redefining the Modern: Essays on Literature and Society in Honor of Joseph Wiesenfarth (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2004)
Wrote introduction to
References
- ^ a b c "Ira Nadel". ABC BookWorld.
- ^ a b c "Biographies: Contemporary authors, new revision series: Nadel, Ira Bruce 1953-". HighBeam Research. 1 January 2004. Archived from the original on 10 June 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
- ^ "Ira B. Nadel". LibraryThing. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ "Auto/Biography studies: Who we are". Auto/Biography studies. 2008. Archived from the original on 11 May 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ swarren (8 February 2010). "UBC prof speaks out against Olympic torch video". Ubyssey (University of British Columbia student newsletter). Archived from the original on 4 January 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
- ^ John Allemang (24 October 2009). "This is the torch that Hitler lit". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ "Books, Israel explored". Hadassah magazine. 2012. Archived from the original on 15 April 2013. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ a b "University of Texas press : Leon Uris, Life of a best seller". University of Texas Press. 2011. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
- ^ ISBN 978-0521636209.
- ^ Jeremy McCarter (24 February 2008). "Profane poet". New York Times: Sunday Book Review. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
- ^ a b Steven Price (Fall 2009). "Book Review of David Mamet: A Life in the Theatre". Style. 43 (3): 284. Archived from the original on 22 July 2010.
- ^ a b Brenda Maddox (9 May 1999). "Biography: A love affair or a job". New York Times: Book. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
- ^ Ira B. Nadel (1 September 2011). "Ira Nadel: A summer's day with MI 5". University of British Columbia ArtsWIRE. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
- ^ a b Gavin Wilson (23 January 1997). "Cohen biography puts author in the spotlight". University of British Columbia Reports.
- ^ Mary Leong (18 March 2011). "Biography: Its future as a book". University of British Columbia ArtsWIRE.
- ISBN 0-8386-4013-3.
- ^ a b c d "Honours and distinctions". University of British Columbia: Department of English. 31 July 2012. Archived from the original on 13 March 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ "People". University of British Columbia: Public affairs. 4 September 1997. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ "Leon Uris And "Exodus"- 50 Years Later". Schumaster Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. 31 October 2008. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ "The dead secret: Wilkie Collins". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ James R. Kincaid (6 June 1999). "Topless in Tahiti". New York Times Book Review. Retrieved 1 August 2012.