Burton Pike

Emanuel Burton Pike ( born June 12, 1930 in Boston) is an American German scholar and literary scholar.

Until his retirement in 2001, he was Professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. Pike graduated from Haverford College in 1952 with a Bachelor of Arts and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1958 under Professor Dr. Henry Hatfield on Robert Musil.

Burton Pike was in the course of his career received numerous awards: American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1952-53, a Fulbright Fellowship, 1953-54, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, 1966-67.

Book publications

  • " Robert Musil, An Introduction to His Work ", Cornell University Press, 1961 - ISBN 0-8046-1546-2. Reprinted by Kennikat Press, 1972
  • " The Image of the City in Modern Literature ", Princeton University Press, 1981 - ISBN 0-691-06488-1
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