"The Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book" in the Literary Encyclopedia , an online reference resource based in East Anglia University, Robert Clark, general editor.
William F. Klein came to the Kenyon Department of English in 1968, the last year of Kenyon's history as an all-male school. He was hired particularly to teach a course in linguistics and the history of the English language for students who were interested in becoming secondary-school teachers. It is still one of his most popular courses.
His graduate study at the University of Chicago under the auspices of the Medieval Studies Committee and the English department provided a background in both classical philology and the Chicago version of "New Criticism." Having survived the "theory" wars in the field of the humanities, he now describes himself as a "literary anthropologist," referring to the subject of John Crowe Ransom's last essay for The Kenyon Review in 1959.
He continues to teach the history of the English language, and this year for the first time "Introduction to English Linguistics." He also has taught courses in a variety of periods and forms of English and American literature…
Read MoreWilliam F. Klein came to the Kenyon Department of English in 1968, the last year of Kenyon's history as an all-male school. He was hired particularly to teach a course in linguistics and the history of the English language for students who were interested in becoming secondary-school teachers. It is still one of his most popular courses.
His graduate study at the University of Chicago under the auspices of the Medieval Studies Committee and the English department provided a background in both classical philology and the Chicago version of "New Criticism." Having survived the "theory" wars in the field of the humanities, he now describes himself as a "literary anthropologist," referring to the subject of John Crowe Ransom's last essay for The Kenyon Review in 1959.
He continues to teach the history of the English language, and this year for the first time "Introduction to English Linguistics." He also has taught courses in a variety of periods and forms of English and American literature. He devised a course devoted to "The Modern Short Story" nearly twenty years ago. It remains one of the popular features of the English department's offerings each year.
1975 — Doctor of Philosophy from Univ Chicago
1962 — Master of Arts from Univ Chicago
1959 — Bachelor of Arts from Butler University
"The Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book" in the Literary Encyclopedia , an online reference resource based in East Anglia University, Robert Clark, general editor.
A Review of The Numerical World of the Gawain-Pearl Poetin The Medieval Review, Fall, 2003.(TMR is an email review accessible at TMR-L@wmich.edu )