Alan Trachtenberg, in Conversation with Paul Giles
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3852124 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Giles (0000-0003-4937-8453, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-11 |
| Publication date | 2008-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative American Studies An International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1477-5700 • E-ISSN: 1741-2676 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/147757008x267204 |
| OpenAlex | W2094127298 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
This conversation took place in Oxford on 27 February 2007. Alan Trachtenberg was Visiting Professor at Oxford University’s Rothermere American Institute during winter term 2007, co-teaching with Paul Giles a course on ‘The Idea of Culture in American Thought and Art’ as a methods course for the new Oxford Master’s degree in English and American Studies, which accepted its fi rst intake of students in 2006–07. Readings on the course included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, John Dewey, Kenneth Burke, William Carlos Williams, Alain Locke, Constance Rourke, Hart Crane, and Walker Evans. Leo Marx, emeritus professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology — born in 1919, but still academically active — visited the seminar on 7 February, and he later gave a talk to the Oxford English Faculty on The Great Gatsby. Leo Marx’s The Machine in the Garden, originally published in 1964 and never out of print since then, is, along with F. O. Matthiessen’s American Renaissance (1941), one of the most seminal scholarly works in American Studies of all time
American literature · Art · Art history · Conversation · Linguistics · Literature · The Renaissance · Classics · History · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism
| Highly cited | No |
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