Paul Friedrich

About

Contact Information

Office: Foster 501
Phone: (773) 702-7004

(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., Dostoevsky, Thoreau) and theoretical problems in ethnography, poetics, and world poetry. (Retired 6/96; still teaching)

Selected Works

Selected Publications

Year Title / Publications PDF
2010 “a goldfinch instant.” Concord to India Haikus. Chicago: Virtual Artists Collective (in press).
2009 Handholds (Haiku poems). The March Street Press.
2009 Walden’s Political Thoreau. The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies. v. 16.
2008 The Gita within Walden. SUNY Press
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.
2006 from root to flower. Chicago: Virtual Artists Collective
2004 Alexander Pushkin, Wisdom Poet. Russian Literature. IV: 503-528.
2002 Tolstoy and the Chechens. Russian History. 30(1-2): 113-145.
2001 Lyric Epiphany. Language in Society. 30: 217-47.
1998 Music in Russian Poetry. New York: Peter Lang.
1986 The Language Parallax. Linguistics, Relativism and Poetic Creativity. Austin: U of Texas Press.
1978 The Meaning of Aphrodite. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
1977 Agrarian Revolt in a Mexican Village. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
1970 Proto-Indo-European Trees. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.