Paul Friedrich

(PhD, Yale 1957) Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, of Linguistics, and in the Committee on Social Thought, and Associate in Slavics, has done fieldwork in southwestern Mexico, South India, and among Russians. Other research includes the Aphrodite myth in Ancient Greece, and Proto-Indo-European, and American poetry. His current work is divided between anthropology and literary studies (e.g., Homeric Greek, Towstoy, Thoreau) and theoretical problems in ethnography, poetics, semiotics, and politics. (Retired 6/96; still teaching)

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Publications:

1986 The Language Parallax. Linguistics, Relativism and Poetic Creativity. Austin: U of Texas Press.

1997 An avian and aphrodisian reading of the Odyssey. American Anthropologist. 99:2:306-320

1998 Music in Russian Poetry. New York: Peter Lang.

2001 Ironic irony. In J. Fernandez & M. Huber, eds., Ironic Practice. University of Chicago Press.

2001  Lyric Epiphany.  Language in Society. 30: 217-47.

2002  Binarism versus Synthesis: East European and Generic Exile. In D. Radulescu, ed., Realms of Exile: Diasporism, Nomadism, and East European Voices. Lexington Books. 159-185.

2002  Maximizing Ethnopoetics. In C. Jordan & K. Tuite, eds., Language, Culture, and Society. 207-229.

2002  Tolstoy and the Chechens. Russian History. 30(1-2): 113-145.

2004  Tolstoy, Homer and Genootypical Influence. Comparative Literature. 56(4): 283-299.

2004  Alexander Pushkin, Wisdom Poet. Russian Literature. IV: 503-528.

2008  (w/ D. Radulescu) A Tragedy of Language and a Language of Tragedy: Madam Bovary and Anna Karenina. In C. O'Neil, et al., eds., Poetics, Self, Place: Essays in Honor of Anna Lisa Crone. Bloomington: Slavica.

2008  The Gita within Walden.  SUNY Press

2009  Walden's Political Theories. The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies. v. 16.

2009  Handholds (Haiku poems). The March Street Press (in press)