- Stanley Mitchell
Stanley Mitchell ( born
1932 ) is a British academic and author. He was born in London and attended Christ College School which included a period of evacuation toBiggleswade duringWorld War 2 .He did national service during which he learnt German and Russian and went on to read modern languages at Oxford specialising in French, German and Russian.
His specialist subjects are Russian literature and art, comparative literature, art history and cultural studies. He has held teaching posts at the universities of Birmingham, Essex, Sussex, San Diego California, McGill Montreal, Dares Salaam Tanzania and Camberwell School of Art.
He was
Emeritus Professor of aesthetics at theUniversity of Derby and holds an Honorary Senior Research Fellowship in the Art History department atUniversity College London .He has published translations of
Georg Lukacs ,Walter Benjamin , andAlexander Pushkin .References
*Author biography for, "Eugene Onegin ", translation at Penguin Classics, 2008
Works
* "Romanticism and Socialism", by Stanley Mitchell in
New Left Review I/19, March-April 1963 [http://www.newleftreview.org/?view=1009 PDF copy (subcription needed)]
* "The Historical Novel" , Georg Lukacs, University of Nebraska Press, 1983. Translated into English by Hannah Mitchell and Stanley Mitchell] . (ISBN 0803279108)
* "Understanding Brecht" by Walter Benjamin , Introduced by Stanley Mitchell, Anna Bostock (Translator). Verso Books, 2003. (ISBN 1859844189)
* "Eugene Onegin ", Alexander Pushkin.Penguin books September 2008 Translated into English byStanley Mitchell .(ISBN 978-0-140-44810-8 )
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