Paul Lauter
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Paul Lauter is Allan K. and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature Emeritus at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He has served as President of the American Studies Association (of the United States), and he is General Editor of the groundbreaking Heath Anthology of American vis mere Literature, now in its seventh edition. vis mindre
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The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume B: Early Nineteenth Century: 1800-1865 (2004) 163 eksemplarer
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume A: Colonial Period To 1800 (2004) 160 eksemplarer
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume E: Contemporary Period 1945 to the Present (2005) 121 eksemplarer
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume D: Modern Period 1910-1945 (2005) 114 eksemplarer
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume C: Late Nineteenth Century 1865-1910 (2004) 105 eksemplarer
From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park: Activism, Culture, and American Studies (New Americanists) (2001) 16 eksemplarer
The Politics of literature;: Dissenting essays on the teaching of English (Pantheon antitextbooks) (1972) — Redaktør — 15 eksemplarer
The conspiracy of the young 2 eksemplarer
Heath Anthology American Literature Concise + Barton Contemporary Handbook of Literary Terms 2nd Ed (2003) 1 eksemplar
The Concise Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1: Beginnings to 1865 (Heath Anthology of American… (2013) 1 eksemplar
Bundle: The Heath Anthology of American Lit: Late Nineteenth Century (1865-1910), Volume C, 6th The Heath Anthology of… (2009) 1 eksemplar
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- 1932
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- male
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- USA
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- New York University
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- Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
American Studies Association - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Bode-Pearson (prize for lifetime achievement in American Studies, 2006)
Jay Hubbell Award (lifetime achievement in American Literary Study, 2001) - Kort biografi
- Paul Lauter is an icon of American Studies who has been a primary agent in its transformation and its chief ambassador abroad. He is Allan K. and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He has served as President of the American Studies Association (of the United States), and he is General Editor of the groundbreaking Heath Anthology of American Literature, now in its sixth edition. In the 1960s, Lauter served as Peace Education Secretary and Director of Peace Studies for the American Friends Service Committee, and executive director of the U.S. Servicemen's Fund. During 1964 and 1965 he worked in freedom schools in Mississippi, then in Roosevelt University's Upward Bound program, and in 1967 he became director of the first community school project in the nation, at Adams-Morgan in Washington, D.C. He was also active in the faculty and staff union at the State University of New York, serving as statewide vice-president for academics, as chapter president, and as grievance officer, among other positions. He was also one of the founders of The Feminist Press and its treasurer and an editor for fourteen years.
Lauter has served as director of American Studies, as English department chair, and has for many years been the director of the graduate program in American Studies.
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He also argues that the American literary canon was created and perpetuated by academic elites who served as the arbiters of taste in the first half of the twentieth century. The revival of Melville in the 1920s and the rise of the Modernists Eliot and Pound were emblematic of the creation of an American cannon to the exclusion of women and African-Americans writing at the same time. Literary anthologies and the development of the New Criticism served to a-historicize and depoliticize the American literary art of that time. Lauter contends that previous American Studies scholarship failed to take into account the “borderland” aspect of American culture, specifically Mexican-Americans and Native Americans. The canon of American studies therefore failed to fully acknowledge the contributions of these ethnic minorities to American culture.
From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park complicates what American Studies entails, thereby expanding and diversifying its method and subject of study. Lauter challenges the reader and scholars to contextualize and historicize subject matter in American Studies. An even more interdisciplinary and complex approach seems to be his solution to keeping American Studies viable and relevant in modern scholarship.… (mere)