Marvin Mudrick (1921–1986) taught at

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from 1949 until his death in October 1986. He created the university's

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in 1967 and was its provost until forced out by Chancellor

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in 1984. He wrote 100 essays on books for ''

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'' and published five collections of his essays on books and writers. He also wrote for ''

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''. 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.The Writers Directory: 1980-1982. NY: Macmillan, 1979 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
ontaining perhaps his most notorious essay, the title essay on Shakespearebr>''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

(November 9, 1981) by John Leonard * ttps://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A05E6DA1F38F932A05752C0A964948260 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'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Mudrick, Marvin 1921 births 1986 deaths American literary critics University of California, Santa Barbara faculty University of California, Berkeley alumni Temple University alumni 20th-century American non-fiction writers