by Center For Mark Twain Studies | Oct 14, 2024 | A Tale of Today, The American Vandal
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on October 15, 2024 Apple Podcasts Spotify Organized around a comparison of György Lukács’s The Historical Novel (1937) and Mark Twain & Charles Dudley Warner’s The Gilded Age (1873), in this episode we take a...
by Center For Mark Twain Studies | Oct 1, 2024 | A Tale of Today, The American Vandal
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on October 1, 2024 Apple Podcasts Spotify From Fredric Jameson on why “the most important goal is history itself” follows a series of conversations about dialectical criticism vs. new historicism [5:00], the wisdom...
by Center For Mark Twain Studies | Sep 23, 2024 | A Tale of Today, The American Vandal
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on September 23, 2024 Apple Podcasts Spotify What’s the difference? The episode opens with defenses of presentism by two literary critics and a reception history of “The Gilded Age” [6:30] before turning to a...
by Center For Mark Twain Studies | Sep 12, 2024 | A Tale of Today, The American Vandal
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on September 12, 2024 Apple Podcasts Spotify A new episode of “A Tale of Today” begins with an explanation of the forest charter and the enclosure of the commons through a revisionist version of a familiar story. The...
by Center For Mark Twain Studies | Sep 9, 2024 | A Tale of Today, The American Vandal
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on September 9th, 2024 Apple Podcasts Spotify A new season of The American Vandal Podcast inspired by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner’s 150-year-old novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, launches with an...