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Born December 6, 1919 • Antwerp • Belgium
Died December 21, 1983 (aged 64) • New Haven • Connecticut
Notable Works “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism” • “Wartime Journalism, 1939–1943”
Movement / Style Yale School
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