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The prime advantage to the Substack transcripts over our previous provider is that they are synchronized with episode audio, so you can check the text against the recording simply by clicking on the play button to the left of each paragraph. I considered this feature imperative given that I have not been able to find time to edit transcriptions before they post.
Listeners should also be apprised that Spotify is now providing automatically-generated transcriptions on their platform. My cursory investigation shows…
The following warning from previous posts remains applicable…
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In the second part of the finale of “Criticism LTD,” we hear about the origins of Jacque Derrida’s “Limited Inc.” from its editor, the fraught alliance between criticism and history [17:00], the Center For The Literary Arts at Washington University in St. Louis [33.00], the transition from creative writer to working critic [62:00], and critical vocationalism [72:00].
Cast:
Danielle Dutton is Associate Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, as well as Co-Director of the Center For The Literary Arts and a founding editor of Dorothy Press.
Jed Esty is the Vartan Gregorian Professor of English at University of Pennsylvania and the author of The Future of Decline (Stanford UP, 2022).
Gerald Graff is Professor Emeritus of English at University of Illinois, Chicago. He is the author of Professing Literature (U Chicago, 1987), Clueless in Academe (Yale UP, 2003), and Literature Against Itself (U Chicago, 1979), among other things. And he is the editor of Limited Inc. (Northwestern UP, 1988) and the Case Study In Critical Controversy Edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bedford, 2003)
Ignacio Infante is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature & Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis, as well as Co-Director of the Center For The Literary Arts.
Ryan Ruby is a freelance writer and member of the Berlin Writers’ Workshop, as well as winner of the 2023 Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism and author of “A Golden Age?”, a lecture hosted by Vinduet magazine in Oslo on March 7, 2023. His epic of the poet-critic, Context Collapse, is forthcoming from Seven Stories Press. His novel is The Zero & The One (Twelve, 2017).
Matt Seybold is Associate Professor of American Literature & Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College, resident scholar at the Center For Mark Twain Studies, and executive producer of The American Vandal Podcast.
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