Inta Ezergailis
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Inta Ezergailis was a Latvian American professor emerita of German Literature at Cornell University
from 1969—99, specialized on Thomas Mann
and contemporary women writers. In 1965 she began graduate study at Cornell University and after earning the doctorate in 1969, she was appointed to the Cornell faculty as an Assistant Professor of German literature. She specialized in Thomas Mann and women writers.
In addition to the books, she published numerous articles, in English and Latvian
, in scholarly and intellectual periodicals.
During the last decade of her life, she turned from academic prose to poetry. Posthumously her poems have been published by Ulysses House in four volumes: Inta's poems I, II, and III, Alzheimer's Poems, the Vanishing of a Mother The last volume is devoted to her mother who died of dementia.
Inta was wife to Andrew Ezergailis
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For literary criticism see:
http://web.me.com/ezergail/Inta__Ezergailis/Manns_Tristan.html
http://web.me.com/ezergail/I.Ezergailis/Bachmann,_Wolf,_Lessing,_Jong,_Struck,_Du_Plessix_Gray..html
http://web.me.com/ezergail/Inta_Ezergailis/Gunars_Salins.html
For Inta's poetry see:
http://web.mac.com/ezergail/iWeb/Inta’s poems/inta ezergailis.html
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
from 1969—99, specialized on Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual...
and contemporary women writers. In 1965 she began graduate study at Cornell University and after earning the doctorate in 1969, she was appointed to the Cornell faculty as an Assistant Professor of German literature. She specialized in Thomas Mann and women writers.
In addition to the books, she published numerous articles, in English and Latvian
Latvian language
Latvian is the official state language of Latvia. It is also sometimes referred to as Lettish. There are about 1.4 million native Latvian speakers in Latvia and about 150,000 abroad. The Latvian language has a relatively large number of non-native speakers, atypical for a small language...
, in scholarly and intellectual periodicals.
During the last decade of her life, she turned from academic prose to poetry. Posthumously her poems have been published by Ulysses House in four volumes: Inta's poems I, II, and III, Alzheimer's Poems, the Vanishing of a Mother The last volume is devoted to her mother who died of dementia.
Inta was wife to Andrew Ezergailis
Andrew Ezergailis
Andrew Ezergailis is a retired Professor of History, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, USA, known for his research into the 20th-century history of Latvia, particularly of the 1917 Revolution and the Holocaust in Latvia....
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For literary criticism see:
http://web.me.com/ezergail/Inta__Ezergailis/Manns_Tristan.html
http://web.me.com/ezergail/I.Ezergailis/Bachmann,_Wolf,_Lessing,_Jong,_Struck,_Du_Plessix_Gray..html
http://web.me.com/ezergail/Inta_Ezergailis/Gunars_Salins.html
For Inta's poetry see:
http://web.mac.com/ezergail/iWeb/Inta’s poems/inta ezergailis.html
Books
- Male and Female: An Approach to Thomas Mann's Dialectic (1975)
- Woman Writers - The Divided Self (1982). Study of Christa Wolf, Ingeborg Bachmann, Doris Lessing, Erica Jong, Karin Struck, Francine Du Plessix Grey,and others
- Thomas Mann, Critical Essays on Thomas Mann (1988)
- Nostalgia and Beyond: Eleven Latvian Women Writers (1998).