Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on October 31, 2024Apple PodcastsSpotifyA brief history of HBCUs through conversations with five scholars about the second curriculum which informs movement for Civil Rights in the midcentury US, segregation scholars...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on October 18, 2024Apple PodcastsSpotifyAs Nathan Wolff himself puts it, his recent keynote address at the 2024 Quarry Farm Fall Symposium is “very much in dialogue with The American Vandal.” In this talk, Wolff not...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on October 15, 2024Apple PodcastsSpotifyOrganized 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...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on October 1, 2024Apple PodcastsSpotifyFrom 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 of...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on September 23, 2024 Apple PodcastsSpotifyWhat’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 critique...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on September 12, 2024Apple PodcastsSpotifyA 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...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on September 9th, 2024Apple PodcastsSpotifyA 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...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on March 30, 2022Apple PodcastsSpotifyResonate RecordingsSpecial Artwork For This Episode Provided by Siteations Studio | Meg StuderToday the Center For Mark Twain Studies and Elmira College join many schools around...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on March 18, 2022Apple PodcastsSpotifyResonate RecordingsIs is possible to imagine a world without work? Or, at least, a world in which work is not romanticized, is not treated as defining element of social and...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on March 8, 2022Apple PodcastsSpotifyResonate RecordingsWes Anderson’s acclaimed new movie, The French Dispatch, draws inspiration from the Golden Age of The New Yorker magazine, a period from roughly the early 1940s...