Wylie Sypher
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Wylie Sypher | |
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| Born | December 12, 1905 |
| Died | August 1987 Hackettstown, New Jersey, US |
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| Discipline | history of art and literature |
Feltus Wylie Sypher (December 12, 1905 – August 1987) was an American non-fiction writer and professor.
Sypher was born in
Simmons College. That same year he married Lucy Johnston. In 1932, he received his second master's degree from Harvard University
. He earned his Ph.D. in 1937 from Harvard.
Sypher taught summers at the
Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College, where he had taught since 1957. He was twice awarded a Guggenheim fellowship for research in the theory of fine arts and literature.[1]
He died in Hackettstown, New Jersey, in 1987.
Works
- Four Stages of Renaissance Style: Transformations in Art and Literature, 1400–1700. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. 1955.
- Rococo to Cubism in Art and Literature (1960)
- Loss of the Self in Modern Literature and Art (1962)
- Literature and Technology: The Alien Vision (1968)
- The Ethic of Time: Structures of Experience in Shakespeare (1976)
- Art History: An Anthology of Modern Criticism (editor, 1963)
References
- ^ "About the Author" in Literature and Technology: The Alien Vision, p. 259.
External links
- Wylie Sypher at the New York Review of Books.
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