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Contact Information
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City / Town
San Diego -
State
California -
Country
United States -
Website
http://www.donaldwesling.com/
Education
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College / University
Harvard
Biography
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About
Donald Wesling is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at University of California, San Diego. His teaching topics include English poetry from Wordsworth to Ted Hughes, working class fiction, nature writing, modern Scottish literature, poetics and theory of literature, and ideas of communication in Russian thinker Mikhail Bakhtin. His books include studies of Wordsworth, John Muir, Edward Dorn, and Bakhtin; and inquiries into rhyme, meter, avant-garde prosodies, literary voice and literary emotion. His current project is a book about the element of animal perception in human reading and writing. -
Topic(s) of interest
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If published, where?
Published books include studies of Wordsworth, John Muir, Edward Dorn, and Bakhtin; and inquiries into rhyme, meter, avant-garde prosodies, literary voice and literary emotion
Donald Wesling has just completed and submitted to a publisher for consideration, a book in the Animal Studies field, titled The Literary Animal of Movements and Perceptions.