Bob Dylan working in a room above the Cafe Espresso in Woodstock, N.Y., in 1964.
Author: Kasia Boddy (Page 2 of 4)
The full programme is described below: the session on American Studies is on 15th March at 11.50am. Helping humanities scholars achieve better research outcomes is at the heart of our work at ProQuest. Come and learn about the research value of our historical, art and film collections, how we work with partners such as The British Library, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and Condé Nast to create rich archival collections of magazines, manuscripts, rare books, periodical archives, official documents, and ebooks and how ProQuest provides an efficient and productive discovery experience for researchers and librarians. *14th March, Monday - Room GR06/07* – Register here <http://links.proquest.mkt5049.com/ctt?kn=4&ms=NTA2OTg2OTAS1&r=MzU0NzMwMzMxNzIS1&b=0&j=ODYxODM2OTgyS0&mt=1&rt=0> 12:00 – Lunch and Refreshments 13:20 – Welcome & Introduction – Jessica Porter, Account Manager and James Caudwell, Electronic Subscriptions, University Library 13:40 – Bringing rare, faraway collections to arts and humanities scholars – Hugh Chatterton, History Sales Specialist 14:40 – Break 15:00 – Current ebook trends and usage case studies – Jackie Stringer, ebook Specialist 16:00 – Close and Drinks *15th March, Tuesday - Room GR06/07* – Register here <http://links.proquest.mkt5049.com/ctt?kn=9&ms=NTA2OTg2OTAS1&r=MzU0NzMwMzMxNzIS1&b=0&j=ODYxODM2OTgyS0&mt=1&rt=0> 10:00 – Refreshments 10:20 – Welcome and Introduction – Jessica Porter, Account Manager and Libby Tilley, Faculty Librarian 10:30 – How digitized content can support teaching and research in Film studies – John Pegum, Senior Product Manager Humanities 11:30 – Break 11:50 – Improving research outcomes with content diversity: American studies – Hugh Chatterton, History Sales Specialist 13:00 – Close and Lunch These events present a great opportunity to catch-up with researchers and library professionals, and build on the shared knowledge of the community. Together we aim to help you to better meet the demands of students at the university. Come and find out how ProQuest is supporting Humanities scholarship. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. Please feel free to forward this invitation to your colleagues. Registration for each event is required. Best wishes, the ProQuest and Faculty of English Teams
Americanists are warmly invited to two events with Valerie Forman (NYU) who is currently working on a book project about trade and cultural relations in the Caribbean, entitled 'Developing New Worlds: Property, Freedom, and the Economics of Representation in Early Modern England and the Caribbean.' 1) On Tues 23rd Feb at the Renaissance research workshop, Dr Forman will be talking informally about doing interdisciplinary and trans-Atlantic work in the 17th Century. 1-2pm , GR-03. (You are welcome to bring your lunch). 2) On Wednesday the 24th Feb, she will be leading a reading group from 12.30-2pm at the Meeting Room in CRASSH (part of the Crossroads of Knowledge series). The reading will consist of Thomas Southerne's 'Oroonoko' (1695) and Richard Ligon's 'A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados' (1657). See below for further notes on the reading from the seminar coordinator, Rebecca Tomlin. Notes on the Seminar Reading The Southerne text is widely available in collections but if you can obtain the Regents edition ed. by Novak and Rodes (1976) that would be helpful. I have also put a copy of the 1695 text from ECCO in to Dropbox (Warning before printing: this document is 92 pages long). I have put a pdf of the original Ligon text from EEBO into Dropbox (Warning before printing: this document is 85 pages long). There is also a modern edition edited by Karen Kupperman (Hackett, 2011). Professor Forman would like us to look in particular at : 1) The Dedication (I have put this in Dropbox) 2) Pages from Karen Kupperman edition (2011) based on 1673 edition. --Introduction: 1-7, 16-19 --Pages 40-1; up until the end of the paragraph started on p. 40 --Pages 51-62; (Cape Verde section); end at middle of page at St Iago --Page 93-110 (The number and nature of the inhabitants) --140-69 (Plantain, Banana, Pineapple, and SUGAR) I have also put scans of these selected extracts in the Dropbox. Please follow this link to reach the Dropbox folder: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jjhty5i915gm9hq/AACwgWXA1wSrHXc0YMAWxjSza?dl=0
Access is now provided to the digital archive Nineteenth century U.S. Newspapers. The archive can be accessed via this link http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/cambuni?db=NCNP and is linked via the eresources@cambridge index and subject pages and via the LibGuides A-Z. Titles in the archive will also be searchable in the ejournals@cambridge A-Z and in LibrarySearch and LibrarySearch+ shortly. The archive content can be searched alternatively via the new Artemis Primary Sources platform either in isolation or in combination with the other digital archives available from Gale Cengage licensed to the University: http://gdc.galegroup.com/gdc/artemis?fromProdId=ECCO&p=GDCS&u=cambuni
…in the New York Review of Books
Ta-Nehisi Coates, New York City, 2012
AMERICAN LITERATURE RESEARCH SEMINAR
INSIDE THE DARK HOUSE: William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! & the writing of trauma
Richard Gray (University of Essex)
Thursday 21/1/16 at 4.30pm in the English Faculty Boardroom
Early in 1934, William Faulkner sat down at his desk and, in his characteristically spidery handwriting, wrote ‘A Dark House’ at the top of a blank page. It was a title that haunted him. For a while, it was the working title for the story that eventually became Light in August (1932). But now he was thinking of using it for another and even darker narrative: the novel that was eventually published two years later, in 1936, as Absalom, Absalom! The darkest of all Faulkner’s major novels, Absalom, Absalom! is also the most seamlessly concerned with trauma. This talk explores Absalom, Absalom! with specific reference to the personal, historical and intertextual elements that make it such a supreme and complexly layered example of the writing of trauma. ‘A book is… the dark twin of a man,’ Faulkner wrote in his second novel, Mosquitoes (1927). This talk considers how, in what is arguably the finest of his novels, Faulkner encounters a ‘dark twin’ that is at once personal and something that cuts across personal, spatial and textual boundaries.
I didn’t realise something was missing. Or rather, I didn’t realise that I would care that something was missing. In fact, I was pretty sure that a November which didn’t involve dodging my mother’s annual pie bake-a-thon, explaining to my Dad for fiftieth time why my husband and I wouldn’t be eating the turkey (we eat kosher), shuttling my son to my ex-husband’s parents’ house halfway though the day, and then helping clean up after a dinner party of 25, sounded just about perfect.
But on Monday morning, I woke up to this…
…a photo of a festively decorated bulletin board from my mother’s Kindergarten classroom. In case you are not well versed in the finer American arts, the rainbow-tailed, avian effigies pictured above are colour-cut-and-glue turkeys. Sometimes these garish gobblers come in the form of hand tracings, coloured to resemble turkeys, other times they are assembled from pre-made outlines that have been photocopied from the same Xerox master copy for decades; passed down from one teacher to another upon retirement…along with a box of paper-plate Puritan hats, and politically incorrect Native American pasta necklaces. In fear of causing a cultural-insensitivity uproar, the contents of said inherited box would be immediately discarded… all except for the Xerox turkey master copy… it’s worth its weight in gold(en) mashed potatoes.
But I digress.
Monday morning found me in want of turkeys. It found me in want of overly simplistic renderings of the pilgrim/Native American food swap and celebration. It found me in want of handmade cornucopias made from badly coloured paper plates stapled together with poorly cutout pictures of fruit. It found me in want of the familiar — not that Cambridge is entirely unfamiliar to the American eye — but the knowledge that the familiar was taking place without me…found me wanting.
Luckily there are two other expat families in our complex who were experiencing similar “wantings,” so today we will be hosting our own food swap, complete with semi-crazed “bake-a-thon,” confused explanations of why our family is not eating turkey, and cleaning up after a massively large dinner party… as well as a communal watching of Charlie Brown’s Thanksgiving and perhaps Disney’s The Adventure of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (narrated by the king of American holidays – Bing Crosby) while the tryptophan sets in.
Happy T-day everyone.
Recommended T-day Movie Watch List (via youtube!)
Charlie Brown’s Thanksgiving (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ961y0VKEk)
Really gets at the heart of the American cultural matter.
Disney’s The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cjfDGJHGko) – I have no idea why these are paired together, but it’s part of the experience. Please note – Ichabod is Ichabod Crane from Washington Irving’sThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
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