CHIS: The Life and Work of Alan Rowland Chisholm (1888-1981).
Foreword by Wallace Kirsop. Pp. xviii+220(last blank), coloured frontispiece portrait, 7 full page black & white illustrations, list of works cited, further reading, index; dust wrapper; Ancora Press, Melbourne, 2019. First edition, limited to 200 copies. *Posthumously published biography of one of Australia's leading teachers and researchers in modern European Literature. (Stan Scott, who was a pupil and friend of Chisholm, died in 2014). 'The emphasis in this privileged firsthand testimony is on the literary scholar and on the unfolding of his philosophically grounded critical method. There is however, much on a New South Wales country childhood, on schooling and university study in Sydney, on a sojourn in France and Germany before the First World War, on life in the trenches of the Western Front, and on the long years of employment (1921-1956) at the University of Melbourne' [wrapper blurb]. Item #154313
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