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James L. Guetti (November 5, 1937 – January 11, 2007), Professor of English at Rutgers University, was a philosopher of language, author, and professor. His main interests were the fiction of Joseph Conrad and the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. The goals of his teaching were to have his students become better thinkers and more effective writers. Born in Medford, Massachusetts, son of James and Gladys (Cutter) Guetti, his family moved to Florida when he was three years old. He spent his early childhood years in Miami, Hialeah, and Sweetwater. During his adolescence, his family moved back to Massachusetts, this time to Orange. From there, they relocated to Warwick, Rhode Island, where Jim graduated from James T. Lockwood High School in 1955. As the first in his family to attend college, he received several academic and athletic awards at Amherst College. The latter awards were for his prowess in football. In 1959, he was awarded his A.B. degree ''cum laude''. A year later, he received his M.A. from Cornell University. A Ph.D. from the same institution followed in 1964. He then taught English at The Taft School for a year. Subsequently, he transferred to Rutgers University where he was an English professor for 36 years. Jim Guetti died of cancer at his home in Leverett, Massachusetts. He was married, with two sons. ==Career== Rupert Read of the University of East Anglia wrote a personal obituary for James Guetti, in which he expressed the following: "I was privileged to work closely with Guetti while I was a grad student at Rutgers, and to write with him then and afterwards. He was a massively stimulating colleague, an extraordinary mentor — and (to coin a much-abused term, which in this case ‘’is’’ justly applied) an absolutely ‘’inspirational’’ teacher." Another former student, Millburn, New Jersey attorney Anthony Gaeta, said, "He made me more precise in how I communicate, and expanded my ability to really understand what people are saying when they use words." 〔Obituary, ''The Star Ledger'', January 13, 2007〕 Rutgers professor Barry Qualls recalled, "Jim was breathtakingly smart and very funny, and didn’t care for other people's sanctities. He had a feisty intelligence that didn’t jump on bandwagons." Barry Lipinski, a student of Jim Guetti in the undergraduate and graduate program at Rutgers who became a good friend, said “Jim gave me the highest compliment. He said “You are a word man; you care about words.” Barry said “I read Jim’s novel “Action” when it first came out through my Baltimore County Enoch Pratt library system when I was a senior in high school and I was determined to take a course with him at Rutgers after reading it. Jim could not believe the level of detail I knew about the book and how his novel spurred me to visit Pimlico race track and become a lifelong devotee of thoroughbred racing and start a friendship with a buddy who would teach me the value of reading every word.” Besides being a teaching writer of academic topics, as well as fiction, James Guetti had several other interests. He was very well versed in fishing, fly tying, cooking, and poker. To his advantage, he discovered that certain thoroughbred horses run faster when they first change from running on dirt to running on turf. His brother Michael, a retired Star Ledger sports writer, remembers Jim's adventurousness: "… tramping through the Everglades with just a knife in his back pocket." Also, Mike asserts that his brother "… was the most original thinker I’ve ever met. He was as serious about horse racing and flyfishing as he was about literature. He had a way of stringing ideas together to reach a clear sense of things." 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「James L. Guetti」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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