Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on September 5, 2023Apple PodcastsSpotifyResonate RecordingsThe Chicago Fight & “Criticism Inc.” A deep dive into the Chicago Critics who inspired John Crowe Ransom’s 1937 essay, “Criticism Inc.,” as well as their...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on August 28, 2023Apple PodcastsSpotifyResonate RecordingsWhat is the political economy of New Criticism? Are the racist and reactionary Cold War politics of the New Critics immanent to their trademark method: close...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on August 25, 2023Apple PodcastsSpotifyResonate RecordingsLast week, West Virginia University announced that it would abolish its World Languages, Literatures, & Linguistics Department, proposing to replace it...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on August 21, 2023Apple PodcastsSpotifyResonate RecordingsHow has the systemic defunding and deprofessionalizing of humanities academia impacted literary criticism? Why is there such a flourishing culture industry if...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on August 14, 2023Apple PodcastsSpotifyResonate RecordingsWhat is criticism? Why should it matter? Can it be saved from the gun-toting businessman? A crossover episode with the High Theory podcast connects internal...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on August 7, 2023 Apple PodcastsSpotifyResonate RecordingsThe premiere of a new series, “Criticism LTD,” on the contemporary state of criticism. This episode covers proclamations of crisis from legacy media earlier...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on January 4, 2023 Apple PodcastsSpotifyThe annual convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA), though much diminished from its early 21st-century peak, is still the largest gathering of literature and...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on December 19, 2022Apple PodcastsSpotifyThis will be the final 2022 episode of The American Vandal Podcast, but you can expect a special 50th episode shortly after the new year, and much more throughout 2023. As...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on December 7, 2022Apple PodcastsSpotifyHere at Quarry Farm, in 1876, Mark Twain composed and self-published a pornographic farce in mock Elizabethan prose which featured several of the most esteemed literary figures...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on November 23, 2022Apple PodcastsSpotifyResonant RecordingsThe seventh season of The American Vandal Podcast, “Social Problems,” focused on potentially epochal changes to mass media, continues with a conversation...