Perry Meisel
Perry Meisel is an American
writer and former Professor of English at
New York University. He taught at New York University for over forty years prior to his retirement in 2016 and has written on literature, music, psychoanalysis, theory, and culture since the 1970s. His articles have appeared in ''
The Village Voice,
The New York Times Book Review,
Partisan Review,
October,
The Nation,
The Atlantic'', and many other publications. His books include ''The Myth of Popular Culture from Dante to Dylan'', ''The Literary Freud'', ''The Cowboy and the Dandy'', ''The Myth of the Modern'', ''The Absent Father'', and ''Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Repressed''. He is co-editor, with Haun Saussy, of Ferdinand de Saussure's ''Course in General Linguistics'', and co-editor, with Walter Kendrick, of ''Bloomsbury/Freud: The Letters of James and Alix Strachey, 1924–25''. He is also editor of ''Freud: A Collection of Critical Essays''. He received his B.A., M. Phil, and Ph.D. from Yale.
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