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Show moreChristopher Flint has a new book out from Cambridge University Press entitled 'The Appearance of Print in Eighteenth-Century Fiction'. In the book, Chris uses a wide variety of example books, texts, and authors from that era to look at the fluid and dynamic relationship between authors, publishers, printers, booksellers and readers. These various groups had sometimes surprising influence on each other in an age when prose fiction and the novel were being defined and redefined, based on how readers consumed texts, how printers assembled texts, and how writers created texts.
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Show moreMary Davis is a musicologist, author, and chair of Case Western Reserve University's Music department. Mary's most recent book returns to fin de siecle France and looks at the celebrated Ballet Russes, the troupe's equally celebrated leader Sergei Diaghilev, and the impact he and his group's work had on society and fashion in Paris.
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Show moreWilliam Claspy and Florence Harness Professor of Religion Timothy Beal discuss the book 'Biblical Literacy: The Essential Bible Stories Everyone Needs to Know' (HarperOne, c2009). Professor Beal is a prolific author and scholar, with ten books and many articles published on the cultural history of the Bible, religion and popular culture. The sub-sub title of the book is "The best bits without all the boring bits" which describes it quite clearly. Bill Claspy and Tim Beal talk about how the book came about, along with Beal's fascination with the binding of Isaac and the book of Job, and mermaids.
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Show moreGillian Weiss, associate professor of history at Case Western Reserve University, talks with Bill Claspy about her book entitled Captives and Corsairs: France and Slavery in the Early Modern Mediterranean published by Stanford University Press in the spring of 2011.
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Show moreThe Case Western Reserve University Farm is a special place for many Case people, faculty, staff, alumni and students alike. Dr. Ana Locci, director of the farm, and Christopher Bond, horticulturalist, to Off the Shelf speak with Bill Claspy. Chris and Ana recently published a photographic history of the CWRU Farm, entitled Case Western Reserve University: Squire Valleevue and Valley Ridge Farms. Drawing from a rich variety of documents and photographs from the university's archives and personal papers, the book tells the history of these properties and their bequest to and use by the university community, past and present.
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Show moreWilliam Claspy and Christine Cano (Department of Modern Languages and Literatures) discuss Cano's book Proust's Deadline, which was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2006. The book presents a concise history of the publishing and reception of Proust's multi-volume masterpiece In Search of Lost Time. The complete sound wav file is available, along with a link to an mpeg3.
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Show moreCase Western Reserve University Music department's Associate Professor Daniel Goldmark and William Claspy discuss Goldmark's book 'Tunes for 'Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon'. Daniel Goldmark also co-edited the books 'The Cartoon Music Book' and 'Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema'.
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Show moreProfessor Jim Sheeler teaches at Case Western Reserve University's English department, as the Shirley Wormser Professor of Journalism and New Media. In 2006, he won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for the series “Final Salute”, which he then published in book form in 2008 with The Penguin Press as Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives.” In addition, Jim has two other books, Obit: Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People Who Led Extraordinary Lives, a collection of his writing, and Life on the Death Beat: A Handbook for Obituary Writers of which he was a co-author.
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Show moreBill Claspy speaks with David J. Rothenberg, discussing his new book, The Flower of Paradise: Marian Devotion and Secular Song in Medieval and Renaissance Music, which was published in September of 2011 by the Oxford University Press. David is an associate professor of musicology at Case Western Reserve University, and is the author of a number of highly regarded papers related to the music of the 13th through the 16th century, in which he focuses on musical meaning and connections between music, liturgy and other arts. This view of early music is exactly what he does in The Flower of Paradise, examining the connection and intersection of secular and Marian devotional song. Professor Rothenberg does so on a broad level, and includes examinations of poetry, painting and sculpture, and how those arts related to, were influenced by, and mirrored the music of the age.
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Show moreWilliam Claspy speaks with Professor Alan Rocke, the Henry Eldridge Bourne Professor of History and Distinguished University Professor at Case Western Reserve University. He is a historian of science, specializing in the history of the physical sciences during the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly the development of the science of chemistry and its applications during the course of the nineteenth century, especially in Germany, France, and Great Britain. Alan discusses his latest book, entitled From the Molecular World: A Nineteenth Century Science Fantasy, a translation of a work written in the late 19th century by Hermann Kopp.
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Show moreMolly Berger is associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and instructor of history here at Case Western Reserve University. Molly and Bill Claspy discuss Berger's book entitled 'Hotel Dreams: Luxury, Technology, and Urban Ambition in America, 1829-1929' published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in the spring of 2011. Her book focuses on how luxury hotels in the 19th century have come to represent the complexities of an emerging national urban culture in America.
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Show moreIn a conversation with Jim Edmonson (curator of the Dittrick Medical History Center, Case Western Reserve University), and is also adjunct associate professor in the Department of History. Jim was co-author of the book 'Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine: 1880-1930', with John Harley Warner of Yale University. The book came out earlier this year to great critical and popular success. Bill Claspy and Jim Edmonson discuss about the book, the role of cadavers and dissection in American medical education, and more about the Dittrick's collection.
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Show moreBill Claspy talks with Kimberly Emmons, Associate Professor of English and Director of Composition at Case Western Reserve University. Kimberly's field of research is medical rhetoric, and as such she has published a wide variety of book chapters and journal articles on various aspects within that field. Her recently published first book Black Dogs and Blue Words: Depression and Gender in the Age of Self-Care appeared in March, 2010 from Rutgers University Press and will be the topic of our conversation.
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Show moreAn interview with Associate Professor Kurt Koenigsberger from the English Department, discussing his new book "The Novel and the Menagerie: Totality, Englishness and Empire". The complete sound wav file is available, along with a link to an mpeg3.
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Show moreIn a conversation with Associate Professor of Music Mary Davis, Bill Claspy and Professor Davis discuss her book 'Erik Satie, a biography of the French composer that was published by Reaktion Books in their "Critical Lives" series in 2007. In addition, they also talk about her critically acclaimed book Classic Chic: Music, Fashion, and Modernism which was published by the University of California Press in 2006.
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Show moreReturning to Off the Shelf is Timothy Beal, Case Western Reserve University's Florence Harkness Professor of Religion, and prolific author of books and essays on religion and American culture. Beal joined Bill Claspy on a previous episode, discussing his book Biblical Literacy. Tim and Bill discuss his latest book entitled The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book.
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Show morePeter Bennett is assistant professor of music here at Case Western Reserve University and recently the author of Sacred Repertories in Paris Under Louis XIII. In addition to his research interests and teaching schedule, Peter is an active performer, appearing regularly as a continuo player with Apollo’s Fire, Cleveland’s baroque orchestra. Peter's recordings with Ensemble Dumont, of which he was founder, can be found on the Linn Recordings website. The opening of this episode features a clip of the piece Veni Sponsa Mea from a recording by the ensemble entitled Henri Dumont: Les Litanies De La Vierge.
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Show moreBill Claspy speaks with poet and assistant professor of English Sarah Gridley. Sarah's poetry has been published in a long list of prestigious journals and poetry reviews, including the Chicago Review, Crazyhorse, the Kenyon Review Online, New American Writing and Slope. Sarah joined me in November, 2008 for episode 4 of this program, in which we discussed her book Weather Eye Open, which was published by the University of California Press in 2005. The press clearly couldn't get enough of Sarah's work, and earlier this year published her latest volume in their New Poetry series. The book is entitled Green is the Orator, and will be the topic of our conversation for episode 13.
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Show moreCase Western Reserve University Lecturer and Poet in Residence Sarah Gridley, author of a compilation of poems entitled Weather Eye Open, published by the University of California Press in 2005. The interview includes a discussion of influences, during which Sarah reads a poem by Wallace Stevens that had an early and profound effect on her, entitled "The Idea of Order at Key West".
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