Harold Bernard Segel (September 13, 1930 – March 16, 2016) was

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of Slavic literatures and of comparative literature at

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. Segel was born in

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, Massachusetts, and attended

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. He majored in Modern Languages at

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(BS, 1951) and did graduate work at

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(PhD, 1955).Christine Nasso (ed.), ''Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Volumes 21-24'' (Gale, 1976; ), p. 781.

Works

*''The Literature of Eighteenth-Century Russia: A History and Anthology'' (1967) *''The Major Comedies of

Alexander Fredro Aleksander Fredro (20 June 1793 – 15 July 1876) was a Polish poet, playwright and author active during Polish Romanticism in the period of partitions by neighboring empires. His works including plays written in the octosyllabic verse (''Zemst ...

'' (1969) *''The Baroque Poem: A Comparative Survey'' (1974) *''Twentieth-Century Russian Drama from Gorky to the Present'' (1979) *''Turn-of the-Century Cabaret: Berlin, Munich, Paris, Barcelona, Vienna, Krakow, St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Zurich'' (1987) *''Renaissance Culture in Poland. The Rise of Humanism, 1470–1543'' (1989) *''The Vienna Coffeehouse Wits 1890-1938'' (1995) *''Pinocchio's Progeny : Puppets, Marionettes, Automatons, and Robots in Modernist and Avant-Garde Drama'' (1995) *'' Death of Tarelkin and Other Plays: The Trilogy of Alexander Sukhovo Kobylin'' (1996) editor *''Stranger in Our Midst: Images of the Jew in Polish Literature'' (1996) editor *''

Egon Erwin Kisch Egon Erwin Kisch (29 April 1885 – 31 March 1948) was an Austro-Hungarian and Czechoslovak writer and journalist, who wrote in German. He styled himself ''Der Rasende Reporter'' (The Racing Reporter) for his countless travels to the far corners ...

, the Raging Reporter'' (1997) *''Polish Romantic Drama: Three Plays in English Translation'' (1997) editor *''Body Ascendant: Modernism and the Physical Imperative'' (1998) *''The Columbia Guide to the Literature of Eastern Europe Since 1945'' (2003)

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