RALPH W. RADER, 77, of California, died Friday, Nov. 23, 2007. He was Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Born May 18, 1930, in Muskegon, Mich., he was the son of Ralph McCoy and Nelle (Fargo) Rader.
He spent his early years in Chicago and Fort Wayne, and moved to Steuben County, near Angola, at the age of 7. With an undergraduate degree from Purdue followed by a Ph. D. from Indiana University, he joined the Berkeley faculty in 1956, where he had a distinguished and varied career as a scholar, teacher, and administrator. His study of Alfred Lord Tennyson developed fresh information about the poet's early love relationships and showed how these are centrally reflected in such poems as "Maud" and "Locksley Hall." The study is now cited in the standard edition of Tennyson's poems and in biographies and encyclopedias. The Tennyson book was followed over the years by a number of seminal essays analyzing the varying relationship between fact and artistic form in a number of masterworks. His 1968 essay on Boswell's "Life of Johnson" was praised by the then dean of Boswell studies, Professor Frederick Pottle, in his presidential address to the Johnson Society at Lichfield, as offering "by far the aptest" description of the structure of the "Life" that had ever been written, a judgment reaffirmed by Bruce Redford in his 2002 Oxford Press Lyell Lectures, when he speaks of his analysis as a "ground-breaking essay," "the single most important study of the structural principles that shape the 'Life of Johnson.'" His essays on the dramatic monologue and dramatic lyric have achieved parallel canonical status, as have his several essays on James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist" and "Ulysses." A major theorist of the novel as a genre, he developed in a series of seminal essays an original and influential interpretation of the emergence and development of the English novel as a form, an account that encompasses the masterworks of three centuries of English fiction. He served as chair of the Department of English from 1976 to 1980 and again from 1994 to 1996. He was a member of the Editorial Committee of the University of California Press from 1963 to 1971, the last four years as co-chairman. He served three terms on the Committee to Visit the Harvard English Department, the last as chair, and was on the board of the Yale Boswell editions, as well as on the boards of various scholarly journals. He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1973. He was an engaged and beloved teacher who taught even large lecture courses by the Socratic method. His graduate students have been widely successful as teachers, administrators, and as writers both scholarly and commercial. He taught four National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars. He was awarded a campus Distinguished Teaching Award in 1976 and was honored on his retirement with the Berkeley Citation "for distinguished achievement and notable service to the University."
He married June Warring on Sept. 3, 1950; she survives. Also surviving are three daughters, Lois Wilson of Paris, Nancy and Emily Rader, both of Berkeley, Calif.; and two sons, Eric Rader of Manteca, Calif. and Michael Rader of Los Osos, Calif.; and four grandchildren, Trevor and Christopher Rader and Mathiesen and Addie Nelle Norgaard.
Memorial service is 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008, planned by the family in conjunction with the UC Berkeley English Department to be held on its campus in the Maude Fife room of Wheeler Hall.
Published by Fort Wayne Newspapers on Dec. 28, 2007.
He spent his early years in Chicago and Fort Wayne, and moved to Steuben County, near Angola, at the age of 7. With an undergraduate degree from Purdue followed by a Ph. D. from Indiana University, he joined the Berkeley faculty in 1956, where he had a distinguished and varied career as a scholar, teacher, and administrator. His study of Alfred Lord Tennyson developed fresh information about the poet's early love relationships and showed how these are centrally reflected in such poems as "Maud" and "Locksley Hall." The study is now cited in the standard edition of Tennyson's poems and in biographies and encyclopedias. The Tennyson book was followed over the years by a number of seminal essays analyzing the varying relationship between fact and artistic form in a number of masterworks. His 1968 essay on Boswell's "Life of Johnson" was praised by the then dean of Boswell studies, Professor Frederick Pottle, in his presidential address to the Johnson Society at Lichfield, as offering "by far the aptest" description of the structure of the "Life" that had ever been written, a judgment reaffirmed by Bruce Redford in his 2002 Oxford Press Lyell Lectures, when he speaks of his analysis as a "ground-breaking essay," "the single most important study of the structural principles that shape the 'Life of Johnson.'" His essays on the dramatic monologue and dramatic lyric have achieved parallel canonical status, as have his several essays on James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist" and "Ulysses." A major theorist of the novel as a genre, he developed in a series of seminal essays an original and influential interpretation of the emergence and development of the English novel as a form, an account that encompasses the masterworks of three centuries of English fiction. He served as chair of the Department of English from 1976 to 1980 and again from 1994 to 1996. He was a member of the Editorial Committee of the University of California Press from 1963 to 1971, the last four years as co-chairman. He served three terms on the Committee to Visit the Harvard English Department, the last as chair, and was on the board of the Yale Boswell editions, as well as on the boards of various scholarly journals. He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1973. He was an engaged and beloved teacher who taught even large lecture courses by the Socratic method. His graduate students have been widely successful as teachers, administrators, and as writers both scholarly and commercial. He taught four National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars. He was awarded a campus Distinguished Teaching Award in 1976 and was honored on his retirement with the Berkeley Citation "for distinguished achievement and notable service to the University."
He married June Warring on Sept. 3, 1950; she survives. Also surviving are three daughters, Lois Wilson of Paris, Nancy and Emily Rader, both of Berkeley, Calif.; and two sons, Eric Rader of Manteca, Calif. and Michael Rader of Los Osos, Calif.; and four grandchildren, Trevor and Christopher Rader and Mathiesen and Addie Nelle Norgaard.
Memorial service is 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008, planned by the family in conjunction with the UC Berkeley English Department to be held on its campus in the Maude Fife room of Wheeler Hall.
Published by Fort Wayne Newspapers on Dec. 28, 2007.
RALPH W. RADER, 77, of California, died Friday, Nov. 23, 2007. He was Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Born May 18, 1930, in Muskegon, Mich., he was the son of Ralph McCoy and Nelle (Fargo) Rader.
He spent his early years in Chicago and Fort Wayne, and moved to Steuben County, near Angola, at the age of 7. With an undergraduate degree from Purdue followed by a Ph. D. from Indiana University, he joined the Berkeley faculty in 1956, where he had a distinguished and varied career as a scholar, teacher, and administrator. His study of Alfred Lord Tennyson developed fresh information about the poet's early love relationships and showed how these are centrally reflected in such poems as "Maud" and "Locksley Hall." The study is now cited in the standard edition of Tennyson's poems and in biographies and encyclopedias. The Tennyson book was followed over the years by a number of seminal essays analyzing the varying relationship between fact and artistic form in a number of masterworks. His 1968 essay on Boswell's "Life of Johnson" was praised by the then dean of Boswell studies, Professor Frederick Pottle, in his presidential address to the Johnson Society at Lichfield, as offering "by far the aptest" description of the structure of the "Life" that had ever been written, a judgment reaffirmed by Bruce Redford in his 2002 Oxford Press Lyell Lectures, when he speaks of his analysis as a "ground-breaking essay," "the single most important study of the structural principles that shape the 'Life of Johnson.'" His essays on the dramatic monologue and dramatic lyric have achieved parallel canonical status, as have his several essays on James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist" and "Ulysses." A major theorist of the novel as a genre, he developed in a series of seminal essays an original and influential interpretation of the emergence and development of the English novel as a form, an account that encompasses the masterworks of three centuries of English fiction. He served as chair of the Department of English from 1976 to 1980 and again from 1994 to 1996. He was a member of the Editorial Committee of the University of California Press from 1963 to 1971, the last four years as co-chairman. He served three terms on the Committee to Visit the Harvard English Department, the last as chair, and was on the board of the Yale Boswell editions, as well as on the boards of various scholarly journals. He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1973. He was an engaged and beloved teacher who taught even large lecture courses by the Socratic method. His graduate students have been widely successful as teachers, administrators, and as writers both scholarly and commercial. He taught four National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars. He was awarded a campus Distinguished Teaching Award in 1976 and was honored on his retirement with the Berkeley Citation "for distinguished achievement and notable service to the University."
He married June Warring on Sept. 3, 1950; she survives. Also surviving are three daughters, Lois Wilson of Paris, Nancy and Emily Rader, both of Berkeley, Calif.; and two sons, Eric Rader of Manteca, Calif. and Michael Rader of Los Osos, Calif.; and four grandchildren, Trevor and Christopher Rader and Mathiesen and Addie Nelle Norgaard.
Memorial service is 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008, planned by the family in conjunction with the UC Berkeley English Department to be held on its campus in the Maude Fife room of Wheeler Hall.
Published by Fort Wayne Newspapers on Dec. 28, 2007.
He spent his early years in Chicago and Fort Wayne, and moved to Steuben County, near Angola, at the age of 7. With an undergraduate degree from Purdue followed by a Ph. D. from Indiana University, he joined the Berkeley faculty in 1956, where he had a distinguished and varied career as a scholar, teacher, and administrator. His study of Alfred Lord Tennyson developed fresh information about the poet's early love relationships and showed how these are centrally reflected in such poems as "Maud" and "Locksley Hall." The study is now cited in the standard edition of Tennyson's poems and in biographies and encyclopedias. The Tennyson book was followed over the years by a number of seminal essays analyzing the varying relationship between fact and artistic form in a number of masterworks. His 1968 essay on Boswell's "Life of Johnson" was praised by the then dean of Boswell studies, Professor Frederick Pottle, in his presidential address to the Johnson Society at Lichfield, as offering "by far the aptest" description of the structure of the "Life" that had ever been written, a judgment reaffirmed by Bruce Redford in his 2002 Oxford Press Lyell Lectures, when he speaks of his analysis as a "ground-breaking essay," "the single most important study of the structural principles that shape the 'Life of Johnson.'" His essays on the dramatic monologue and dramatic lyric have achieved parallel canonical status, as have his several essays on James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist" and "Ulysses." A major theorist of the novel as a genre, he developed in a series of seminal essays an original and influential interpretation of the emergence and development of the English novel as a form, an account that encompasses the masterworks of three centuries of English fiction. He served as chair of the Department of English from 1976 to 1980 and again from 1994 to 1996. He was a member of the Editorial Committee of the University of California Press from 1963 to 1971, the last four years as co-chairman. He served three terms on the Committee to Visit the Harvard English Department, the last as chair, and was on the board of the Yale Boswell editions, as well as on the boards of various scholarly journals. He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1973. He was an engaged and beloved teacher who taught even large lecture courses by the Socratic method. His graduate students have been widely successful as teachers, administrators, and as writers both scholarly and commercial. He taught four National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars. He was awarded a campus Distinguished Teaching Award in 1976 and was honored on his retirement with the Berkeley Citation "for distinguished achievement and notable service to the University."
He married June Warring on Sept. 3, 1950; she survives. Also surviving are three daughters, Lois Wilson of Paris, Nancy and Emily Rader, both of Berkeley, Calif.; and two sons, Eric Rader of Manteca, Calif. and Michael Rader of Los Osos, Calif.; and four grandchildren, Trevor and Christopher Rader and Mathiesen and Addie Nelle Norgaard.
Memorial service is 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008, planned by the family in conjunction with the UC Berkeley English Department to be held on its campus in the Maude Fife room of Wheeler Hall.
Published by Fort Wayne Newspapers on Dec. 28, 2007.
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