Ira Nadel

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Ira B. Nadel (BA, MA Rutgers; PhD Cornell), Professor of English, specializes in biography, the Victorians and such Modernists as Joyce, Pound and Beckett. He is the author of Biography, Fiction Fact & Form (1984), Joyce and the Jews (1989), Leonard Cohen, A Life in Art (1994), Various Positions, A Life of Leonard Cohen (1996), Double Act, A Life of Tom Stoppard (2000), Ezra Pound, A Literary Life (2004), and Joyce and His Publishers (2005).

He has edited The Letters of Ezra Pound to Alice Corbin Henderson (1993); The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound (1999) and Ezra Pound, Early Writings, Poems and Prose (2005), as well as Wilkie Collins’ formerly lost first novel, Iolani; or, Tahiti as it Was (1999) and Collins’ The Dead Secret (1997). His edition of The Education of Henry Adams appeared in 1999. With F.S. Schwarzbach he edited, Victorian Artists and The City (1980), with S. Neuman, Gertrude Stein and the Making of Literature (1988) with Peter Buitenhuis, George Orwell: A Reassessment (1988) and with W.E. Fredeman, Victorian Novelists Before 1885 and Victorian Novelists After 1885 (1983). With W.E. Fredeman and John Stasny, he edited The Victorian Muse ( 1989) in 39 vols. Earlier, he edited Victorian Fiction, A Collection of Essays from the Period (1986) and Victorian Biography, A Collection of Essays from the Period (1986). In 2005 he published the Canadian Edition of Style, 10 Lessons in Clarity and Grace with Joseph M. Williams.

Essays have ranged from portraits of Queen Victoria to Tom Stoppard’s use of Russian culture. New work includes an article on historicism in Joyce’s Ulysses and the American image of Ezra Pound. Forthcoming is The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound (2007), a new edition of his biography of Leonard Cohen (2007), a biography of the playwright David Mamet and an account of the popular writer, Leon Uris. A new project is a cultural history of copyright in Canada.

Ira Nadel is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a UBC Distinguished University Scholar and winner of the 1996 Medal for Canadian Biography. He has also been awarded a Killam Research Prize, Mellon and Dorot Fellowships at the Ransom Humanities Research Center, Univ. of Texas at Austin, and a Beinecke Fellowship at Yale. He has lectured in England, Israel, Italy, China, Germany, Monaco, Ireland, the U.S. and, of course, Canada. [1]

[edit] Articles (Selected)

• “Science and The Moonstone,” Dickens Studies Annual 11 (1983) 239-59.
• “Canadian Biography and Literary Form,” Essays on Canadian Writing 33 (1986): 144-60.
• “Textual Criticism, Literary Theory and the New Ulysses,” Assessing the 1984 Ulysses, ed. C. George Sandulescu and Clive Hart (Totowa, NJ: Barnes and Noble, 1986) 122-39.
• “Biography as Cultural Discourse,” Biography and Source Studies, ed. Frederick Karl Vol. 1 (1994): 73-84.
• “Visualizing History: Pound and the Chinese Cantos,” A Poem Containing History, Textual Studies in the Cantos, ed. Lawrence Rainey (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1997) 151-66.
• “Tom Stoppard and The Invention of Biography,” Modern Drama LXIII (2000): 157-70.
• “Stoppard and Film,” The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard, ed. Katherine Kelly (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001) 84-103.
• “Biography,” Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada, ed. William H. New. Toronto : Univ. of Toronto Press, 2002. 113-17.
• “Constructing the Orient: Pound’s American Vision,” Ezra Pound and China, ed. Zhaoming Qian. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2003) 12-30.
• “Tom Stoppard: In the Russian Court,” Modern Drama 47 (2004): 500-24.
• “David Mamet: Life without an Archive,” Theatre and Autobiography, ed. Sherrill Grace and Jerry Wasserman (Vancouver: Talon Books, 2006) 249- 60.
• “Historicizing Ulysses,” Ulysses in Critical Perspective, ed. Michael Gillespie and A. Nicholas Fargnoli. Gainesville, FL: Univ. Press of Florida, 2006. 135-51.
• "Miss Universe, Mr. Uris, and The Archive,” Ransom Edition 13 (Summer 2006): 8.
• “The American Image of Ezra Pound,” Paideuma 34 (2007) forthcoming.

Source: http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/inadel/publications.htm

[edit] Books Authored

• Biography: Fiction, Fact & Form. London: Macmillan, 1984
• Joyce and the Jews, Culture and Texts. London: Macmillan, 1989
• Leonard Cohen, His Life as Art. Downsview, ON: ECW Press, 1994
• Various Positions, A Life of Leonard Cohen. Toronto: Random House, 1996; New York: Pantheon, 1996.
• Double Act, A Life of Tom Stoppard. London: Methuen, 2002; New York: St. Martin’s, 2002.
• Ezra Pound, A Literary Life. London: Palgrave, 2004.
• Joyce and His Publishers. Dublin: National Library of Ireland, 2005.
• The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007.

Source: http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/inadel/publications.htm

[edit] Co-authored

• With Joseph Williams. Style, 10 Lessons in Clarity and Grace. Canadian EditionToronto: Longman, 2005.

Source: http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/inadel/publications.htm

[edit] Edited (selected)

• Pound, Ezra. The Letters of Ezra Pound to Alice Corbin Henderson. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1993.
• Collins, Wilkie. The Dead Secret. Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 1993.
• Collins, Wilkie. Iolani; or, Tahiti as it Was. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1999.
• Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 1999.
• The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ, Press, 1999.
• Pound, Ezra. Early Writings, Poems and Prose. New York: Penguin, 2005.

Source: http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/inadel/publications.htm