Harold Bernard Segel (September 13, 1930 – March 16, 2016) was

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of Slavic literatures and of comparative literature at

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. Segel was born in

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, Massachusetts, and attended Boston Latin School. He majored in Modern Languages at Boston College (BS, 1951) and did graduate work at

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(PhD, 1955).Christine Nasso (ed.), ''Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Volumes 21-24'' (Gale, 1976; ), p. 781.

Works

*''The Literature of Eighteenth-Century Russia: A History and Anthology'' (1967) *''The Major Comedies of Alexander Fredro'' (1969) *''The Baroque Poem: A Comparative Survey'' (1974) *''Twentieth-Century Russian Drama from Gorky to the Present'' (1979) *''Turn-of the-Century Cabaret: Berlin, Munich, Paris, Barcelona, Vienna, Krakow, St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Zurich'' (1987) *''Renaissance Culture in Poland. The Rise of Humanism, 1470–1543'' (1989) *''The Vienna Coffeehouse Wits 1890-1938'' (1995) *''Pinocchio's Progeny : Puppets, Marionettes, Automatons, and Robots in Modernist and Avant-Garde Drama'' (1995) *'' Death of Tarelkin and Other Plays: The Trilogy of Alexander Sukhovo Kobylin'' (1996) editor *''Stranger in Our Midst: Images of the Jew in Polish Literature'' (1996) editor *''

Egon Erwin Kisch Egon Erwin Kisch (29 April 1885 – 31 March 1948) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak writer and journalist, who wrote in German. He styled himself ''Der Rasende Reporter'' (The Raging Reporter) for his countless travels to the far corners of the ...

, the Raging Reporter'' (1997) *''Polish Romantic Drama: Three Plays in English Translation'' (1997) editor *''Body Ascendant: Modernism and the Physical Imperative'' (1998) *''The Columbia Guide to the Literature of Eastern Europe Since 1945'' (2003)

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