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Given all this drama and controversy, studying the U.S. ought to be more interesting than ever. But undergraduates across Europe have shifted their focus elsewhere, their disaffection a barometer of America's diminished standing in the world. "Students don't trust us," says Walter Grünzweig, a professor of American studies at Germany's Dortmund University, where the number of students applying for exchange programs to the U.S. has roughly halved since 2004. "We have to convince them we're not part of the propaganda branch of the American Embassy...
...analytical mind—all qualities that behoove a student of any discipline.In literature and poetry, the classical languages have left an unmistakable influence on subsequent traditions. Readings of Shakespeare or Corneille or even Beckett are deeper and more complex with an understanding of the rules of Greek drama that those playwrights emulated—or conspicuously shunned. In Dante or Dryden or Tennyson, one can sense the palpable presence of Vergil. To disembody literature from the larger tradition of which the authors were knowingly partaking would appear an artificial and arbitrary extraction.Most importantly, perhaps, we owe our understanding...
Highlight Reel: 1. On Woody Allen's Annie Hall: "The film is full of jokes and funny observations. It has great scenes. But it is not a story or a drama. It is a comic's sad monologue filled out to the dimensions of a movie (93 minutes) in which the impenetrable, impregnable self-regard of Alvy fends off a delightful woman. This is not quite feminism. Indeed, it is a kind of celebration of male infantilism (otherwise known as the movies...
...Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh opens an homage to the year 1958. So if you're a devotee of the AMC drama Mad Men, or just want to escape the current headline news, come here to see ads, products and memorabilia from the year that Elvis Presley was inducted into the U.S. Army, Nikita Khrushchev and General Charles De Gaulle became heads of state, NASA began its quest to put a man on the moon, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Dr. Zhivago topped bestseller lists, Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor shone in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...
...people to research anything and everything that peaked their interest involving war.” Students were asked to create presentations based on the work they had done, which they gave in workshops with McLaughlin last October. “Themes that emerged were female soldiers, PTSD and combat drama, and the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,” Nelson says. “[McLaughlin] brought up that she saw parallels in the themes discussed and the play ‘Ajax’ by Sophocles.” McLaughlin decided to adapt “Ajax...