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Hershel Parker is the H. Fletcher Brown Professor Emeritus at the University of Delaware. He is co-editor with Harrison Hayford of the Norton Critical Edition of Herman Melville's ''Moby-Dick'' (1967 and 2001), the General Editor of the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of ''The Writings of Herman Melville'', and the author of a two-volume biography of Herman Melville published by Johns Hopkins University Press (1996, 2002). Parker is an advocate of traditional methods of literary research, which emphasize access to original materials, encourage deliberate study of chronology, and examine the relationship between a literary work and the creative genius of its author. Parker’s work on ''Ornery People: Who Were the Depression Okies?'', a family study in relation to the history of the American South, has led to his becoming a regular contributor to the webzine ''(Journal of the American Revolution )''. 〔.〕 〔.〕 ==Melville Biography== Volume 1 of Parker's two-volume biography, ''Herman Melville: A Biography, Vol. 1,1819-1851, Vol.2, 1851-1891'', was one of two finalists for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. Each volume of the biography won the highest award from the Association of American Publishers, the first volume in the category of “Literature and Language” (1997) and the second volume in a new category of “Biography and Autobiography” (2003).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Contributor biographical information for Hershel Parker )〕 On September 22, 2008 at the inaugural public program of the CUNY Leon Levy Center for Biography, "An Eloquent Beginning," one of the presenters, Pulitzer Prize winner John Matteson, read aloud the first paragraph of ''Herman Melville: A Biography, 1819-1851'', as an example of how “the opening paragraph should reflect the character of the subject, the way the music of a great aria fits the mood of the words being sung.” In 2013 Parker published ''Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative'', a companion volume to the two-volume biography that is, in part, a memoir of the decades of collaborative research that established a documentary, archival foundation for the two-volume biography. In ''Melville Biography'', Parker also looks at the various theoretical approaches to editing, biography, and literary criticism widely practiced in recent decades — including Marxist Theory, The New Criticism, The New Historicism, Post-Structuralism, and Deconstruction — that he believes fostered the ahistorical, antiarchival biases that likely led some critics and reviewers to publish negative critiques of the two-volume biography. The book was singled out in ''The New Yorker Blog'' as a book to "watch out for." ''Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative'' was critically acclaimed by the respected biographer, Carl Rollyson, in his ''Wall Street Journal'' review, "The Hunt for Herman Melville." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hershel Parker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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