Robert torrance
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Robert M. Torrance is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature
at UC Davis.
Torrance received his B. A. from Harvard in Greek and English, his M. A. at UC Berkeley in Comparative Literature, and his Ph. D. at Harvard in Comparative Literature. After teaching at Harvard and at Brooklyn College of CUNY, he moved to UC Davis in 1976.
During his 25 years at Davis, he served several terms as both director and graduate adviser.
His book-length publications are translations of two plays of Sophocles, Philoctetes and The Women of Trachis; "The Comic Hero" (from Homer to Joyce and Mann); Ideal and Spleen: The Crisis of Transcendent Vision in Romantic, Symbolist, and Modern Poetry; The Spiritual Quest: Transcendence in Myth, Religion, and Science; and Encompassing Nature: A Sourcebook discussing varied historical experiences and concepts of nature in Western and non-Western cultures, with introductions, commentary and translations.
Comparative literature
Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the literature of two or more different linguistic, cultural or national groups...
at UC Davis.
Torrance received his B. A. from Harvard in Greek and English, his M. A. at UC Berkeley in Comparative Literature, and his Ph. D. at Harvard in Comparative Literature. After teaching at Harvard and at Brooklyn College of CUNY, he moved to UC Davis in 1976.
During his 25 years at Davis, he served several terms as both director and graduate adviser.
His book-length publications are translations of two plays of Sophocles, Philoctetes and The Women of Trachis; "The Comic Hero" (from Homer to Joyce and Mann); Ideal and Spleen: The Crisis of Transcendent Vision in Romantic, Symbolist, and Modern Poetry; The Spiritual Quest: Transcendence in Myth, Religion, and Science; and Encompassing Nature: A Sourcebook discussing varied historical experiences and concepts of nature in Western and non-Western cultures, with introductions, commentary and translations.