Richard Abel (cultural historian)

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Richard Owen Abel (born 1941) is a professor of Comparative Literature in the University of Michigan, United States. [1] He has presented several anthologies of French texts translated in English including Colette's first review about The Cheat , Louis Delluc's critics, and Marcel L'Herbier's manifesto. He won the Theatre Library Association Award in 1985, 1995 and 2006. [2]

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References

  1. "Richard Abel". University of Southern California. Archived from the original on 2011-11-29. Retrieved 2011-12-10.
  2. Theatre Library Association online Archived 2011-11-05 at the Wayback Machine