Robert scholes biography

  • In 1998, he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  • Robert E. Scholes was an American literary critic and theorist.
  • Robert Scholes was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1929.

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    Literary critic Robert Scholes, 87, died December 9, 2016 in Rhode Island. He wrote numerous works of literary theory, including several of SF interest: The Fabulators (1967), Structural Fabulation: An Essay on Fiction of the Future (1975), Science Fiction: History — Science — Vision (1977, with Eric S. Rabkin), and Fabulation and Metafiction (1979). He co-edited essay anthologies Bridges to Fantasy (1982) and Co-Ordinates: Placing Science Fiction and Fantasy (1983) with Rabkin and George Edgar Slusser, both in the Eaton Conference Papers series. He wrote many essays on SF as well, notably “The Left Hand of Difference: Le Guin & Derrida” (1983). In all he wrote 15 books and co-wrote ten more.

    Robert Edward Scholes was born May 19, 1929 in Brooklyn NY. He attended Yale, graduating in 1950, then served in the US Navy from 1952-55. He earned his PhD at Cornell in 1959, and taught at the University of Virginia and the University of Iowa. He becam

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    Robert Scholes (politician)

    American politician and lawyer

    Robert Scholes (December 5, 1866 – October 23, 1929) was an American politician and lawyer.[1]

    Born in Peoria, Illinois, Scholes was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1899 and then practiced law in Peoria. From 1904 to 1912, Scholes was state's attorney for Peoria County, Illinois and was a Republican. From 1917 until his death in 1929, Scholes served in the Illinois House of Representatives and was twice speaker of the house in 1925 and 1927. Scholes died in his home, in Peoria, Illinois, from a heart ailment and ill health.[2][3]

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    1. ^"Illinois Blue Book". 1925.
    2. ^'Illinois Blue Book 1929,' Biographical Sketch of Robert Scholes, pg. 222
    3. ^'Robert Scholes, Former Illinois Speaker, Is Dead,' Chicago Tribune, October 24, 1929, pg. 7

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    Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author, Critic, Editor.

    (1929-2016) US academic and sf critic. One of the better-known US theorists in structuralism, he is the author of a number of books on literary theory. In its sustained argument that the essential storytelling element in fiction contradicts any prejudicial inclination to think of the realist novel as more than a phase, The Nature of Narrative (1966; rev vt The Nature of Narrative: Revised and Expanded2006) with Robert Kellogg (1928-2004) contributes to a fuller understanding of Fantastika as a whole; the revised edition adds an update chapter bygd James Phelan (1951-    ). Texts with special relevance to sf include The Fabulators (1967) (see also Fabulation), which deals with various authors including John Barth, Vladimir Nabokov and Kurt Vonnegut in terms consistent with his previous book; Structural Fabulation: An Essay on Fiction of the Future (1975), Science Fiction: History &m