{"product_id":"the-garden-of-my-saying","title":"The Garden of My Saying","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDaniel R. Schwarz\u003c\/strong\u003e (1941–) is Frederic J. Whiton Professor of English Literature and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1968. He is a renowned teacher, scholar, and public intellectual. In 1998, he received Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences Russell award for distinguished teaching. In 1999 he received the Weiss title, which is Cornell’s most esteemed teaching honor.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eSince 2009, Schwarz has been Faculty President of the Cornell chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. He has been the longtime Faculty Advisor to the Literary Society and House Fellow at Rose House, one of Cornell’s five residential colleges. Schwarz’s fifty years at Cornell were celebrated with a two-day conference entitled “Celebrating Dan Schwarz: Fifty Years of Transformative Teaching,” attended by several hundred of his former students.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eSchwarz has directed nine NEH seminars and lectured widely in the United States and abroad, including a number of lecture tours under the auspices of the academic programs of the USIS and State Department. He has held three endowed visiting professorships and been a Guest Fellow for short periods at Oxford and Cambridge.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eHe is author of the well-received \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eEndtimes? Crises and Turmoil at the New York Times, 1999–2009\u003c\/i\u003e (Excelsior Edition of SUNY Press, 2012; paperback edition with a new preface, 2014). He has written on the media and higher education for \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eHuffington Post.\u003c\/i\u003e His book on undergraduate education, \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eHow to Succeed in College and Beyond: The Art of Learning \u003c\/i\u003e(2017–18),\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehas had a wide circulation and been translated into Mandarin for an edition published in China.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eSchwarz is a leading authority on James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, twentieth-century Modernism, and theory of the novel as well as on humanistic and pluralistic approaches to literature. Also an authority on the Holocaust, he has recently published \u003ci\u003eThe Story in Fiction and Film of French Collaboration in the Occupation and Complicity in the Holocaust (1940–1944).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003csup\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eHis\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/i\u003emore recent scholarly books are \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eReading the European Novel to 1900\u003c\/i\u003e (2014)\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eReading the Modern European Novel since 1900\u003c\/i\u003e (2018–2019).\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHis books include \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eIn Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/i\u003e (2008) in the prestigious Blackwell Manifesto series; \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eBroadway Boogie Woogie: Damon Runyon and the Making of New York City Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (2003); and \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eImagining the Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e (1999).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eHe has edited Joyce’s \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eThe Dead\u003c\/i\u003e (1994) and Conrad’s \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eThe Secret Sharer\u003c\/i\u003e (1997) in the Bedford Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism Series. He served as Consulting Editor of the six-volume edition of \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eThe Early Novels of Benjamin Disraeli\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), for which he wrote the General Introduction. He is General Editor of the multi-volume critical series \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eReading the Novel,\u003c\/i\u003e for which he wrote \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eReading the Modern British and Irish Novel\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e, 1890–1930\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (2004) and a two-volume study of the\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eEuropean Novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eHis interests include travel, art museums, theatre, ballet, music, tennis, fishing, long walks, and swimming. He has published over a hundred poems as well as numerous articles on current events, higher education, and travel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center; mso-pagination: none;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eView his work at:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003ecourses.cit.cornell.edu\/drs6\/\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback: 124 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books (September 30, 2025)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublicity:\u003cbr\u003eCornell News (Interview)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026017763527,"sku":"bqw1787287028930","price":14.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0702\/7923\/3735\/files\/the-garden-of-my-saying_1.jpg?v=1787287048","url":"https:\/\/nextstylefashion.shop\/products\/the-garden-of-my-saying","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}