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Wikipedia NationMaster Who's Who (America, World, Educators) Books Russell Reising, The Unusable Past: Theory and the Study of American Culture, 1986: New York, Methuen: esp. "Puritanism as Rhetoric: Sacvan Bercovitch," pp. 74-92 Rael Meyerowitz, Transferring to America: Jewish Interpretations of American Dreams, 1995: State University of New York Press, Albany: esp. "Identifying Rhetorics: The Acculturation of Sacvan Bercovitch," pp. 215-261 Susanne Klingenstein, Enlarging America: The Cultural Work of Jewish Literary Scholars, 1930-1990, 1998: Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY: esp. "The Meaning of America: Sacvan Bercovitch," pp. 347-407 Randall Fuller, Emerson's Ghosts: Literature, Politics, and the Making of Americanists: 2007: Oxford University Press, Oxford: esp. "Sacvan Bercovitch as 'American Scholar'," pp. 122-147 Selected Profiles and Interviews "American Visions," BBC Interview, 1993 "Interview (Intervista)," Acoma, I (1994), pp. 58-62. Giuseppe Nori, "Cross Cultural Adventures," AISNA, vol. 9 (1998), pp. 1-4 Jean Pichette, "Le politique dans le miroir du puritanisme" (interview), Relations, no. 664 (Feb. 27, 2000), pp. 2-15 Susanne Klingenstein, "Harvard als Kibbutz: Grunder und Mythos: Der Amerrikanist Sacvan Bercovitch," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (June 19, 2002), p. 4 Frank Albers, "American Schozophrania," De Standaard der Letteren, Antwerp Neuerbung (July 18, 2002), pp. 8-9 "Sacco, Vanzetti, and Me" (interview), Boston Globe, Oct. 6, 2002 Ken Gewertz, "Bercovitch wins Bode-Pearson Prize," Harvard Gazette (September 20, 2007) Selected Essays Alan Trachtenberg, "The Writer as America," Partisan Review, vol. XLVI (1977), pp. 58-66. Frederick Crews, "Whose American Renaissance?" New York Review of Books, XXXV, no. 16 (27 Oct. 1988), pp. 68-81 Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr., "A New Context for a New American Studies?" American Quarterly, XLI (1989), pp. 588-613 Donald E. Pease, "The New Americanists," boundary 2, LXXVII (1990), pp. 1-37 Paul A. Boye, "Notes Towards a Politics of 'American' Criticism," in Critical Conditions: Regarding the Historical Moment, ed. Michael Hays (University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, 1992), pp. 1-19 Emily Budick, "Sacvan Bercovitch, Stanley Cavell, and the Romance Theory of American Fiction," PLMA (1992), CVII (1992), pp. 78-91 Sam B. Girgus, "'The New Covenant' and the Dilemma of Dissensus: Bercovitch, Roth, and Doctorow," in Summoning: Ideas of the Covenant and Interpretative Theory, ed. Ellen Spolsky (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993), pp. 12-36 Thomas Claviez, "Dimensioning Society: Ideology, Rhetoric, and Criticism in the Work of Sacvan Bercovitch," in The Historical and Political Turn in Literary Studies, ed. Winfried Fluck (Gunter Verlag, Tubingen, 1995), pp. 85-205 Arne Delfs, "Anxieties of Influence: Perry Miller and Sacvan Bercovitch," New England Quarterly, vol. LXX, no. 4 (1997), pp. 601-615 David Harlan, "A People Blinded from Birth: American History According to Sacvan Bercovitch," Journal of American History, LXXXVIII (1998), pp. 949-971 Giuseppe Nori, "Institutions, the Literary Canon, and a "Chronic Outsider": The Example of Sacvan Bercovitch and the Cambridge History of American Literature", in Ripensare il canone. La letteratura inglese e angloamericana, ed. Gianfraca Balestra and Giovanna Mochi, Rome, Artemide, 2007, pp. 71-81 Tributes and Festschrifts Sacvan Bercovitch and the American Puritan Imagination, ed. Michael Schuldinger, 1992: New York: Edwin Mellen Press, essays by Emory Elliott, Teresa A. Toulouse, Mason I. Lowance, Jr., Michael P. Kramer, Ormond Seavey, Rael Meyerowitz, Barry Allen, Michael Schuldinger Cohesion and Dissent in America, 1994: Albany State University of New York Press, eds. Carol Colatrella and Joseph Alkana, essays by Joseph Alkana, Emily Miller Budick, Carol Colatrella, Rael Meyerovitz, Donald Childs, Barry Allen, Kathleen Flanagan, Priscilla Wald, Jose David Saldivar, Kathy Smith, Helen Burke, and Theron Britt Christopher Looby, "Scholar and Exegete: A Tribute to Sacvan Bercovitch: Modern Language Association Honored Scholar of Early American Literature," Early American Literature, vol. 39, no. 1, (2002), pp. 1-9 Giuseppe Nori, "May 14. 2002: A Red Letter Day at Harvard in Honor of Sacvan Bercovitch." Annali, Universita di Macerata, Facolta di Scienza della Formazione, vol. 2 (2005), pp. 137-157 (includes Sacvan Bercovitch, "Retirement Speech," pp. 145-146) Richard Milligan, "Jay B. Hubbell Award Citation" (Dec 29, 2004) and Sacvan Bercovitch, Acceptance Speech Gordon Hutner, "Citation for the Bode-Pearson Prize for Lifetime Achievement in American Studies," (2007) The Turn Back to Religion in Literary and Cultural America (Festschrift, forthcoming 2009), eds. Nan Goodman and Michael Kramer, essays by Nan Goodman, Michael Kramer, Andrew Dubois, Shira Wolosky, Emily Budick, Lawrence Rosenwald, Cyrus Patell, Donald Weber, Michael Colacurcio, Wendy Steiner, Werner Sollors, Jeanne Reeseman, Irene Santos, Javier Rodriquez, Margaret Reid, Sam Girgus, Robert Von Hallberg, Debbie Lopez, Emory Elliott, Giuseppe Nori, Gerald Graff, and Barbara Packer Retirement Conference

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