Forrest G. Robinson

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Forrest Glen Robinson
Born1940 (age 8485)
NationalityAmerican
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Santa Cruz

Forrest Glen Robinson (born 1940) is an American literary historian. He is a professor of literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz and an author of books and articles on American literature especially of the American West and Mark Twain. [1] He's the author of The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain. [2]

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Career

In 1972, Robinson was a Guggenheim Fellow. [3]

Work

His work on "bad faith" in Mark Twain's writing was criticized for its basis in sociology, Marxist thought, and deconstruction "aimed at unmasking the deceptions that authors".. "practice on a public." [4]

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References

  1. "Forrest Robinson, UC Santa Cruz | Distinguished Professor of Humanities". forrestrobinson.sites.ucsc.edu.
  2. Crow, Charles L. (1997). "The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain ed. by Forrest G. Robinson, and: Mark Twain A to Z by R. Kent Rasmussen (review)" . Western American Literature. 31 (4): 384–388. doi:10.1353/wal.1997.0092. ISSN   1948-7142 . Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  3. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Forrest G. Robinson". Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  4. Eble, Kenneth E. (November 20, 1987). "In Bad Faith: The Dynamics of Deception in Mark Twain's America by Forrest G. Robinson (review)" . Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. 41 (4): 265–266. doi:10.2307/1347305. JSTOR   1347305. S2CID   201784714 via Project MUSE.
  5. Bush, Harold K. (2008). Review of The Author-Cat: Clemens's Life in Fiction, by Forrest G. Robinson. New England Quarterly , vol. 81, no. 4, pp. 714–716. doi : 10.1162/tneq.2008.81.4.714. JSTOR   20474685. S2CID   144532123.