http://arcade.stanford.edu/category/tags/history The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en-ac http://arcade.stanford.edu/riding-escalator <p>Name your favorite historical master narratives!</p><p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/riding-escalator">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/riding-escalator#comments history modernity modernization periodicity periodization Raymond Williams Urbanization Zhuangzi http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/991 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:54:21 -0700 Andrew Goldstone 991 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/beyond-wikipedia-notes-robert-lowells-family <p>&quot;Family connexions are part of the poetry of history,&quot; Noel Annan asserted in &quot;The Intellectual Aristocracy&quot;, one of the most famous essays ever written on British culture. Fortunately or unfortunately, it would be fair to embellish Annan's point by adding that sometimes &quot;family connexions are part of the history of poetry.&quot; That, at least, is what this post seeks to demonstrate.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/beyond-wikipedia-notes-robert-lowells-family">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/beyond-wikipedia-notes-robert-lowells-family#comments family history poetry Robert Lowell http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/772 Fri, 07 May 2010 11:51:25 -0700 Nicholas Jenkins 772 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/defense-of-diachronic-possibly-not-of-narrativity <p>This is a response to Joshua Landy’s post <a href="/what%E2%80%99s-wrong-narrative">“What’s wrong with narrative?”</a> I'm coming late to this discussion; more to the point, I'm an art historian, and not a scholar of literature, and therefore am familiar with a different range of critical writing than some of you. I'm also a Sinologist and not a scholar of Western culture.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/defense-of-diachronic-possibly-not-of-narrativity">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/defense-of-diachronic-possibly-not-of-narrativity#comments diachronic history narrative narrativity synchronic http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/711 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:01:07 -0700 Kate Lingley 711 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/gayatri-chakravorty-spivak-david-palumbo-liu-ram%C3%B3n-sald%C3%ADvar-aesthetic-education-age-of-globalization http://arcade.stanford.edu/gayatri-chakravorty-spivak-david-palumbo-liu-ram%C3%B3n-sald%C3%ADvar-aesthetic-education-age-of-globalization#comments Aesthetics capital David Palumbo-Liu epistemology Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak globalization history information memory pedagogy Ramón Saldívar The Arcade Channel the university time 106:25 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, David Palumbo-Liu, Ramón Saldívar Panel Discussion, part of the History, Memory and Reconciliation speaker series. no http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/645 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:38:25 -0800 Zach Chandler 645 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/race-and-narrative-theory-%E2%80%9Cpostrace%E2%80%9D-american-fiction <p> A whole new generation of minority writers has come to prominence whose work signals a radical turn to a &quot;postrace&quot; era in American literature.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/race-and-narrative-theory-%E2%80%9Cpostrace%E2%80%9D-american-fiction">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/race-and-narrative-theory-%E2%80%9Cpostrace%E2%80%9D-american-fiction#comments ethnic fiction form history narrative theory race theory of the novel http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/452 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:50:14 -0800 Ramón Saldívar 452 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/terror-of-unforeseen-speculative-fiction-and-cinema-after-1989 <p>On the sweltering Tuesday evening of September 15, 2009, an exuberant forty-six year old man stood on a stage in Tel-Aviv, Israel and asked a stirred audience, “Are you ready to kill some Nazis?” An enthusiastic “Yeah!” was the response. The name of the man, you may have guessed, is Quentin Tarantino.<p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/terror-of-unforeseen-speculative-fiction-and-cinema-after-1989">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/terror-of-unforeseen-speculative-fiction-and-cinema-after-1989#comments alternate histories Christoph Ransmayr H. G. Wells Hayden White history Inglourious Basterds Isaiah Berlin Morbus Kitahara Quentin Tarantino Speculative historical fiction The Plot Against America The Time Machine Yitzchak Laor http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/378 Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:49:34 -0700 Amir Eshel 378 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/poetry-and-nobility <p>'There is no element more conspicuously absent from contemporary poetry than nobility', Stevens wrote. Perhaps in a very literal way we should restore 'nobility' to the history of contemporary poetry, if for no other reason than because it seems foreign to the field? </p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/poetry-and-nobility">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/poetry-and-nobility#comments Auden Eliot history Lowell poetry Stevens http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/254 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:57:24 -0700 Nicholas Jenkins 254 at http://arcade.stanford.edu