The Philolexian Society of Columbia University
Rudolph R. von Abele
Vital
- Full name
- Rudolph R. von Abele
Columbia & the Society
- Columbia
- Class of 1943 (Columbia College)
Works (7)
- 1946 Alexander H. Stephens: A Biography · Alfred A. Knopf
- 1954 Ulysses: The Myth of Myth · PMLA
- 1955 The Death of the Artist: A Study of Hawthorne's Disintegration · The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff
- 1962 The Vigil of Emmeline Gore (novel) · Houghton Mifflin
- 1963 The Party (novel) · Houghton Mifflin (UK: Cresset Press)
- 1973 Film as Interpretation: A Case Study of Ulysses · J. Aesthetics and Art Criticism
- 1978 A Cage for Loulou: Poems · Louisiana State University Press
Primary sources
The Columbia Daily Spectator
1940-05-15 Philo Awards Honor Three [ARTICLE] prize winner, freshman contribution in poetry
Philo Awards Honor Three Prizes totaling $7O have been awarded to three Columbia students, Harry Rosenstein, Jr. '4l, James Knight '4O, and Rudolph R. von Abele '43, for their winning contributions in the recent contest sponsored by Philolexian Society, one of the oldest collegiate literary groups in the country. Rosenstein, editor of The Columbia Review and a Co-Editor of next year's Jester, received $25 for his short story "A Man and Miss Florabelle", which has been published in the Spring issue of Review. Finding that none of the essays submitted were worthy of an award, the judges recommended that the $25 originally set aside for the essay winner be given instead for the second-best short story. The outstanding contribution of •a. freshman to any field of literary endeavor was made by von Abele, who was the recipient of $2O for his work in poetry. The judges in the essay and short…
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Philolexian Foundation research file: handwritten notes from the Society's signature rolls
141st year of the Society (1943) · Confidence: CERTAIN
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