175 research outputs found
Recall this Book 35: A Conversation with Martin Puchner
No full textRTB listeners already know the inimitable Martin Puchner from that fabulous RTB episode about his "deep history" of literature and literacy, The Written World. You may even know he has a family memoir coming out soon, The Language of Thieves. But it took Books in Dark Times to uncover his secret hankering for tales of the British aristocracy, and for off-kilter modernist texts
Novel Dialogue 1.4: Feral Fiction: Catherine Lacey and Martin Puchner (JP)
No full textNovel Dialogue sends Martin Puchner (polymathic author of The Written World and most recently The Language of Thieves) out to speak with Pew author Catherine Lacey. They go a-wandering. Lacey's earlier works include a 2018 collection of short stories, Certain American States, and two novels: The Answers in 2017 and 2014's Nobody is Ever Missing, a delightful road novel set in New Zealand-always a sure way to win John's admiration. Martin starts by noticing the feral through-line in Catherine's work, a way that people escape or withdraw from socialization. And things go rapidly uphill and downhill from there. In short a rollicking rhythm prevails-you may want to listen while out rambling yourself. Even though Catherine proclaims "we are all housecats now.
Martin Puchner, Literature for a Changing Planet
No full textReview of Martin Puchner's Literature for a Changing Planet.Recensione a Literature for a Changing Planet di Martin Puchner
Recall this Book 6: Martin Puchner on Writing Then and Now
No full textFrom its origins in clay tablets to its future on digital tablets, Martin Puchner has thought about writing in all its forms. In this episode, John and Elizabeth talk to Martin, the Byron and Anita Wien Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard. They begin with a discussion of a very early writerly text-the epic of Gilgamesh, a version of which has been Englished by Elizabeth's father. They discuss the different stages of world writing-from the time of the scribes to the time of great teachers like Confucius, Socrates and Jesus Christ, who had a very complicated relationship to writing. Are we on the cusp of a new transformation in the way in which writing occurs in the world? This transformation might have to do with coding, with the resurrection of the tablet and the scroll, or with the culture of curation that has arisen in a new era in which the ability. to write has been (significantly) democratized. In Recallable Books, Martin recommends the fan fiction website Wattpad; Elizabeth recommends "No Reservations: Narnia," in which Anthony Bourdain goes through the wardrobe. John feints at recommending Dennis Tenen's book on the writing within coding before recommending the Brautigan Library. Come for the discussion of writing, stay for the impressions of Gollum
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Culture ::the story of us, from cave art to K-pop /
No full text"What good are the arts? Why should we care about the past? For millennia, humanity has sought to understand and transmit to future generations not just the "know-how" of life, but the "know-why"--The meaning and purpose of our existence, as expressed in art, architecture, religion, and philosophy. This crucial passing down of knowledge has required the radical integration of insights from the past and from other cultures. In Culture, acclaimed author, professor, and public intellectual Martin Puchner takes us on a breakneck tour through pivotal moments in world history, providing a global introduction to the arts and humanities in one engaging volume"-
Review of Martin Puchner, Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes.
No full textMartin Puchner, Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 315 pp. ISBN 0691122601
Martin Puchner: The Language of Thieves. My Family’s Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate, New York, Norton, 2020
No full textWolf AB. Martin Puchner: The Language of Thieves. My Family’s Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate, New York, Norton, 2020. Zeitschrift für internationale Germanistik. 2021;12(2):202-207
Martin Puchner - Poetry of the Revolution. Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes
No full textThe genre of the manifesto belongs to the key elements of avant-garde textuality. As such, the manifesto has received considerable attention in recent avant-garde research. Many articles, chapters in general studies on the avant-garde, several collections of essays, monographs and annotated anthologies have been devoted to the manifesto in the past decades. Martin Puchner's book on the avant-garde manifesto is a latecomer in this context, published some ten years after a wave of Manifestantismus struck in particular continental European avant-garde research. As in the case of any late arrival, the main question is self-evidently: what adds Puchner to already existing literature? The answer must be rather ambivalent
Alain Badiou, “Rhapsody for the Theatre, edited and introduced by Bruno Bosteels, translated by Bruno Bosteels with the assistance of Martin Puchner”, Verso, London, New York 2013, 174 stron, miękka oprawa. Publikacja anglojęzyczna
No full textRecenzja książki Alaina Badiou “Rhapsody for the Theatre, edited and introduced by Bruno Bosteels, translated by Bruno Bosteels with the assistance of Martin Puchner”, Verso, London, New York 2013, 174 stron, miękka oprawa
BOOK REVIEW: Martin Puchner, „Lumea scrisă. Povești care au schimbat oamenii, istoria și civilizația” [“The written world. Stories that have changed people, history and civilization”], Iași, Polirom, 2018, 306 p., ISBN: 9789734667758
No full textThe passion for literature and the admiration for the creative power of man is shared with us by Martin Puchner, professor “Byron and Anita Wien” of English and compared literature at Harvard University. His various interests aimed at modernism, drama, literary theory and universal literature and his power of expertise in this field have generated consecrated books: the bestseller in six volumes “The Norton Anthology of World Literature” (2012), “The Drama of Ideas” (2010), “The Norton Anthology of Drama” (2009), “Modern Drama: Critical Concepts” (2008) etc., plus the courses of HarvardX MOOC (online open courses).
In the recent book of the professor, “The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization”, we distinguish the effort to present the essentialized overview of literature history, a complex image because of temporal and spatial inclusion as well as the wider significance of the notion of literature. Thus, Puchner removes literature from the template of fiction and adds to it the political texts (such as US Declaration of Independence) and the religious texts (Buddhist sutras, the Bible). The 16 fundamental texts subjected to analysis by the author are not picked at random, but they represent true cultural references, written stories with the highest impact in the history of mankind. They are defining texts, with power to shape the way in which different cultures highlight their origins and values
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