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• Title: Thomas R. Hart (1925-2010) (Necrologies)
• Author : Elias Rivers
• Release Date : January 22, 2010
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 55 KB

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THOMAS R. HART'S DEATH in Eugene, Oregon, on January 17th of 2010, came as a surprise and shock to his friends and colleagues near and far; he had been active in his study and on the campus until the first of the new year. I was probably his oldest professional friend; we first met in a Spanish class as juniors at Yale in 1946. We both at that time had wives and had transferred to Yale as G. I. Bill students. During military service he had studied Japanese and I had studied Chinese. He came from a more academic background in North Carolina, and I from a more rural one in South Carolina. He was better oriented culturally and more adventurous intellectually than I was; he introduced me to Bloomfield's Language, for example, and to Wellek & Warren's Theory of Literature. He persuaded me to take advantage of a language teacher who spoke fluent Carioca Portuguese. He also led me to appreciate the humor of James Thurber and the company of his first dog, named Snorri Sturluson. And he did not do his dissertation in the Spanish department, as I did, but in comparative literature with Rene Wellek, on the early historians of Spanish literature: Bouterwek, Sismondi, Ticknor. In 1950-51 we both went to Europe on pre-doctoral fellowships, he to Montpellier and I to Madrid. The two couples met in Valencia and drove around Spain. I particularly remember one snowy twilight in the Sierra Nevada near Guadix when Tom and the two wives had to get out and push the tiny Morris Minor up a hill while I was trying to drive; we did make it to the next town. Upon our return the two of us stayed on at Yale until 1952, when we got our Ph.D. 's. And we kept in touch personally from then until the end of 2009. Tom began full-time teaching as an instructor at Amherst, and I at Dartmouth. He moved around more frequently in the beginning than I did, finally becoming a full professor at the University of Oregon in 1964. There, as assistant editor and editor of Comparative Literature for almost thirty years, he set high standards for the journal while teaching and publishing, helping many students generously, and writing with scholarly precision on a wide range of literary and linguistic topics in the Romance languages. I will not here attempt to compete with the excellent survey of his work, with a complete list of his publications, that is the introduction to "Writers as Readers: Essays in Honor of Thomas R. Hart" (Comparative Literature, 60.1, winter 2008). For the journal Cervantes I will concentrate on his major Cervantes study: Cervantes and Ariosto: Renewing Fiction (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989).

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