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'''Bernice Slote''' (November 17, 1913 - February 22, 1983), a distinguished Cather scholar, was a professor of English at the [[University of Nebraska-Lincoln]]. |
'''Bernice Slote''' (November 17, 1913 - February 22, 1983), a distinguished Cather scholar, was a professor of English at the [[University of Nebraska-Lincoln]]. |
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Bernice Slote (November 17, 1913 - February 22, 1983), a distinguished Cather scholar, was a professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Early life and education
Slote was born in Hickman, Nebraska. She was the granddaughter of Nebraska homesteaders. Valedictorian of her high school class, she graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan University with high distinction in 1933. She taught English at Ord High School from 1934 until 1941 and also played the piano for church and Sunday school, taught the girls' gymnastics and trained the cheering squads.
In 1941 Slote earned her masters degree in English at the University of Nebraska; she continued graduate work at the University of Michigan where she earned two Hopwood Awards for writing poetry. Despite encouragement from her professors, she decided not to earn her Ph.D.; instead she taught English at the Nebraska City High School from 1941-1942. From 1942-1946 she was Instructor of English, Director of the Library, and the Assistant to the Dean at Norfolk Junior College.
Career
In 1946 she joined the faculty of the English Department at the University of Nebraska, where she taught literature and writing. Her poems had begun to appear in leading journals around the country: The Atlantic Monthly, Michigan Quarterly Review, Voices, Poetry Chap-Book, etc. In 1963 she became editor of the The Prairie Schooner, a responsibility she retained until her retirement in 1980.
Her first book Keats and the Dramatic Principle (1958) won the Explicator Award for the best book of literary analysis in English or American Literature. Her publications included editions of April Twilights (1903); Poems of Willa Cather (1962, 1968); The Kingdom of Art: Willa Cather's First Principles and Critical Statements, 1893-1896 (1967); and Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: Willa Cather's Uncollected Short Fiction (1973, 1986), all published by the UNP.
Personal life
She died in Lincoln, Nebraska, on February 22, 1983.
Works and publications
- Slote, Bernice; Frye, Northrop (1988). Myth and Symbol: Critical Approaches and Applications. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska. OCLC 19280791.
A selection of papers delivered at the joint meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association and the Central Renaissance Conference, 1962.
- Cather, Willa; Slote, Bernice (1966). The Kingdom of Art: Willa Cather's First Principles and Critical Statements, 1893-1896. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-0012-8. OCLC 906054260.