- Erwin Kempton Mapes
Erwin Kempton Mapes (
9 June 1884 , Gilman, Indiana, -18 February 1961 ), was an American scholar of Spanish-American literature, renowned for his work on the Hispanic Modernists.Mapes received his bachelors from
Cornell College inMount Vernon, Iowa in 1909. He then went toHarvard University and studied Hispanic Studies underJeremiah D. M. Ford , receiving his masters in 1915. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-2133(196109)44%3A3%3C461%3AEKM(-1%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6 Roggiano, Alfredo A. (September 1961) "Erwin Kempton Mapes (1884-1961)" " Hispania" 44(3): pp. 461-464] ] He received hisdoctorate from theUniversity of Paris with a study onRubén Darío , published in 1925 as "L'influence française dans l'oeuvre of Rubén Darío". [Mapes, Edwin K. (1925) "L'influence française dans l'oeuvre of Rubén Darío" Paris, republished in 1966 by Comisión Nacional para la Celebración del Centenario del Nacimiento de Rubén Darío, Managua, Nicaragua [http://worldcat.org/oclc/54179225 OCLC 54179225] ]Before receiving his doctorate, Mapes taught at various small colleges including
Western State College of Colorado in Gunnison. Afterwards, in 1925, he was appointed as an associate professor at the State University of Iowa where he taught until his retirement. He was made full professor in 1937.During his life he concentrated his study of literary criticism on
Rubén Darío ,Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera andModernism in Spanish-American literature. He was for many years considered the highest authority in these subjects. Almost all of his work was published in American and French journals. He also published a few books, designed to educate, such as " Y va de cuento" (1943), in collaboration withJuan Lopez Morillas . In 1958 he published a critical edition of "Cuentos completos y otras narraciones" of Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera. [ Nájera, Manuel Gutiérrez (1958) "Cuentos completos y otras narraciones" Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico City, [http://worldcat.org/oclc/355814 OCLC 355814] ]Notes
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