Lillian Feder

American academic

Lillian Feder (July 10, 1923 – January 12, 2007) was an American academic. She was Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Queens College and an emerita professor of the Graduate Center, CUNY, in comparative literature.[1]

Feder was born in New York City and earned her PhD from the University of Minnesota.[2] She published journal articles on solipsism in modern man[3] and on selfhood in literature.[4]

She died on Jan. 12, 2007, in hospice in Stuart, Florida; she had lived in nearby Jensen Beach for five years.[5]

## Publications

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* Crowell's Handbook of Classical Literature (New York: Crowell, 1964)[6]
* Madness in Literature, 1980 (Princeton UP, 1983[7])[8]
* Ancient Myth in Modern Poetry (Princeton UP)
* Naipaul's Truth: The Making of a Writer

## References

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1. ^ "Faculty". Graduate Center, CUNY. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
2. ^ Joseph P. Strelka (1980). Literary Criticism and Myth. Pennsylvania State University. p. 277\. ISBN 9780271002255. OCLC 243918991.
3. ^ Hart, Henry (2013). "For the Confederate and Union Dead Reflections on Civil War Poetry". The Sewanee Review. 121 (2): 205–24\. doi:10.1353/sew.2013.0039. JSTOR 43662667. S2CID 159867964.
4. ^ Feder, Lillian (1960). "Allen Tate's Use of Classical Literature". The Centennial Review of Arts & Science. 4 (1): 89–114\. JSTOR 23737614.
5. ^ "Lillian Feder: Jensen Beach, Florida". Legacy.com. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
6. ^ Zinnes, Harriet (1966). "Reviewed Work(s): Crowell's Handbook of Classical Literature: A Modern Guide to the Drama, Poetry and Prose of Greece and Rome, with Biographies of Their Authors by Lillian Feder". Books Abroad. 40 (1): 97. doi:10.2307/40120441. JSTOR 40120441.
7. ^ "Madness in Literature: Lillian Feder". Princeton University Press. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
8. ^ Gilbert, Sandra M. (1982). "Reviewed Work(s): Madness in Literature by Lillian Feder". The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 81 (2): 244–46\. JSTOR 27708992.

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