Robert scholes biography

Remembering Bob Scholes

On December 9, 2016, Robert Scholes died peacefully in his sleep at his home in Barrington, Rhode Island; he was 87 years old. Bob was a brilliant scholar of literature, and his career was distinguished by a long list of achievements, including the creation of this website and database, The Modernist Journals Project (MJP). Conceived in the mid-1990’s, long before the emergence of Google Books and even before large-scale digital reproduction of printed matter was a real possibility, the MJP emerged from Bob’s desire to create a digital edition of The New Age, a British periodical he had long admired and wanted to make available to the public over the internet. Digitizing all 780 weekly issues of this journal took the better part of a decade to complete, involving a great deal of trial and error, but the MJP’s edition of The New Age became a reality in 2004—the first of many journals the MJP would go on to digitize during Bob’s tenure as project director.

Benefiting from his unshakable commitment to the project, the MJP grew from a mere glimmer in Bob’

Robert Scholes (politician)

American politician and lawyer

Robert Scholes (December 5, 1866 – October 23, 1929) was an American politician and lawyer.[1]

Born in Peoria, Illinois, Scholes was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1899 and then practiced law in Peoria. From 1904 to 1912, Scholes was state's attorney for Peoria County, Illinois and was a Republican. From 1917 until his death in 1929, Scholes served in the Illinois House of Representatives and was twice speaker of the house in 1925 and 1927. Scholes died in his home, in Peoria, Illinois, from a heart ailment and ill health.[2][3]

Notes

  1. ^"Illinois Blue Book". 1925.
  2. ^'Illinois Blue Book 1929,' Biographical Sketch of Robert Scholes, pg. 222
  3. ^'Robert Scholes, Former Illinois Speaker, Is Dead,' Chicago Tribune, October 24, 1929, pg. 7

Robert Scholes

American literary critic and theorist (1929-2016)

For the American politician and lawyer, see Robert Scholes (politician).

Robert E. Scholes

Born1929

Brooklyn, New York

DiedDecember 9, 2016
NationalityAmerican
EducationA.B Yale (1950)
Ph.D. Cornell (1959)
Notable workThe Fabulators
Science Fiction: History, Science, Vision
Semiotics and Interpretation
Modernism in the Magazines: An Introduction
The Rise and Fall of English
English after the Fall
HonoursHonorary Doctorates from Lumière University Lyon 2 (1987) and SUNY Purchase (2003)

Robert E. Scholes (1929 – December 9, 2016) was an American literary critic and theorist. He is known for his ideas on fabulation and metafiction.

Education and career

Robert Scholes was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1929. After taking his A.B. at Yale University in 1950, he served as a gunnery officer in the U. S. Navy from 1952-1955. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1959, and he taught at the University of Virginia and the University of Iowa, before

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