Please find the audio lecture followed by the slides used and then the audio tutorial followed by the whiteboard image discussed. Modernism American 2019 Hi All, today we had a saunter through the highways and byways of American Modernism, beginning with William Carlos Williams and ending with Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin’s parody of Adolf Hitler in The…
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American Modernism
Hi All, today we had a saunter through the highways and byways of American Modernism, beginning with William Carlos Williams and ending with Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin’s parody of Adolf Hitler in The Great Dictator is one of the great modernist, linguistic deconstructions of political grandiosity. It is paralleled by Chaplin’s closing speech where, using an entirely different…
All Quiet on the Western Front- The Horrific Impact of War
The Death of Kemmerich All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Erich Maria Remarque is an author whose message and appeal is universal. Read by Germans, French, English or Americans it spells out the tragic impact of war on the ordinary soldier. But what it also powerfully shows is that in the teeth of war, in…
Michael Griffith: Home Page- Literature and Life Summer 2023 
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