Marvin Mudrick

Marvin Mudrick (1921–1986) taught at

As a teacher at UCSB, he ranked as an instructor from 1949 to 1951, an assistant professor from 1951 to 1957, an associate professor from 1957 to 1963, a full professor from 1963 to 1986, and the provost of the College of Creative Studies from 1967 to 1984.^[1]

He won the O. Henry Prize in 1967 for "Cleopatra," published in the Hudson Review.

Selected works

• Books Are Not Life but then What Is? (Oxford University Press, 1979)
• Nobody Here But Us Chickens (Ticknor & Fields, 1981) [Containing perhaps his most notorious essay, the title essay on Shakespeare]
• The Man in the Machine (Horizon Press, 1977)
• On Culture and Literature (Horizon Press, 1970)
• Jane Austen: Irony as Defense and Discovery (University of California Press, 1974)
• Joseph Conrad: Twentieth Century Views: A Collection of Critical Essays (Edited by Mudrick)
• Mudrick Transcribed: Classes and Talks by Lance Kaplan (College of Creative Studies, 1989)

References

External links

• University of California memorial (1987), written by CCS Literature professors
• New York Times review of Nobody Here But Us Chickens (November 9, 1981) by John Leonard
• Another NYT review (January 31, 1982) by Martha Bayles
• "Getting to Know Marvin Mudrick" (June 2008) by Bob Blaisdell, Changing English: An International Journal of English Teaching
• Marvin Mudrick: rock star of literary criticism (July 2011), Madeleine Brand Show