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Biography
Perry Meisel is an American writer and former Professor of English at New York University. He taught at New York University for over forty years prior to his retirement in 2016 and has written on literature, music, psychoanalysis, theory, and culture since the 1970s. His articles have appeared in The Village Voice, The New York Times Book Review, Partisan Review, October, The Nation, The Atlantic, and many other publications. His books include The Myth of Popular Culture from Dante to Dylan, The Literary Freud, The Cowboy and the Dandy, The Myth of the Modern, The Absent Father, and Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Repressed. He is co-editor, with Haun Saussy, of Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics, and co-editor, with Walter Kendrick, of Bloomsbury/Freud: The Letters of James and Alix Strachey, 1924–25. He is also editor of Freud: A Collection of Critical Essays. He received his B.A., M. Phil, and Ph.D. from Yale.
Works

The Literary Freud
2006

The cowboy and the dandy
1998

The Myth of the Modern
1987

The absent father
1980

Thomas Hardy: the return of the repressed
1972

Freud, a collection of critical essays

The cowboy and the dandy : crossing over from Romanticism to rock and roll

The myth of popular culture from Dante to Dylan

October 28
Course in General Linguistics
Course in General Linguistics
2011
Myth of Popular Culture
Myth of Popular Culture
2009
Freud
Freud
1981
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
1972
Criticism after Theory from Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf
Criticism after Theory from Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf
Bloomsbury/Freud
Bloomsbury/Freud