Stanford Humanities Center audio-visual materials, 1989-2006.

Cage, John.

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American composer. From the description of Imaginary landscape no. 4 or March no. 2, 1951. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 406987239 American composer, philosopher, and writer on music. From the description of [Renga]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270967275 In the summers of 1940 and 1941, John Cage was on the dance faculty of Mills College (Oakland, Calif.). He composed Dance music for Elfrid Ide when she was a student in 1940. ...

Crow, Thomas E., 1948-....

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Garber, Marjorie B.

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Bausch, Pina

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Coetzee, J. M., 1940-

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J. M. Coetzee (b. February 9, 1940, Cape Town, South Africa) is a South African novelist, essayist, linguist, translator, and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He relocated to Australia in 2002 and lives in Adelaide....

Levine, Larry

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Nussbaum, Martha Craven, 1947-....

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Rorty, Richard

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Richard McKay Rorty (1931-2007) is commonly described as one of the most influential thinkers of his era. A philosopher with a remarkably broad intellectual range, his work included the development of a distinctive brand of pragmatism as well as significant contributions to literary criticism, political theory, and other scholarly fields. He was also a public intellectual, writing for such publications as The Nation and The Atlantic. Rorty was born on October 4, 1931, in New York City. The son o...

Iser, Wolfgang

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Wolfgang Iser is a literary theorist and scholar who has been internationally recognized for his work on reception theory and reader-response criticism. He was born in Marienberg, Germany on July 22, 1926. Following his high school education, he was drafted into the German army in 1944 and released from a prisoner of war camp in 1945. Iser studied at the University of Leipzig and received his Ph.D. in English philology and literature from the University of Heidelberg in ...

Bernstein, Charles, 1950-....

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Late 20th-century American poet acknowledged as a leader of the LANGUAGE movement, Charles Bernstein was born in New York City in 1950 and Educated at Harvard University (1968-1972). He founded, and co-edited with Bruce Andrews, the LANGUAGE Journal; published over fifteen works of his collected poetry. Bernstein teaches literature and poetry at the State University of New York in Buffalo. From the description of Charles Bernstein papers, 1962-2000. (University of California, San Die...

Sullivan, Kathleen M., 1955-....

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Carnochan, W. B.

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Biography Educated at Harvard University (A.B. 1953, A.M. 1957, and Ph.D. 1960), W. B. Carnochan joined the English faculty at Stanford University in 1960. He chaired the English department from 1971-73 and has served the University as dean of graduate studies and vice-provost, 1975-80, and director of the Stanford Humanities Center, 1985-1991. A scholar of the eighteenth century, his published books include Gibbon's Solitude: The...

Ginzburg, Carlo

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Stanford Humanities Center

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A gift to endowment from Marta Sutton Weeks in 1987 provides funds to bring visiting distinguished lecturers to Stanford University for stays varying in duration from one week up to one quarter. From the description of Stanford Humanities Center, Marta Sutton Weeks Distinguished Visitor, videorecordings, 2003-2005. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864161 The Stanford Humanities Center, founded in 1980 by then-President Donald Kennedy, is dedicated to the advanced study of h...

Beidao, 1949-....

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Weiskrantz, Lawrence

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Stengers, Isabelle

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Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.

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American author and intellectual. From the description of Authors take sides on Vietnam : autograph manuscript signed : [n.p.], 1968 Mar. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870148 Susan Sontag was an influential and controversial American writer, director, and political activist. She was born in New York city on January 16, 1933, raised in Tucson and Los Angeles. In 1949 she graduated from North Hollywood High School and began her undergraduate work at the University of C...