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From Gift to Game: Prizes in Contemporary Culture

Jim English

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Event Date: Thursday, April 20, 2000
Location: Slought Foundation at University of Pennsylvania
Theorizing Series | Organized by Aaron Levy, Gregory Flaxman

Caption: Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003

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Jim English received his MA from the University of Chicago and his PhD from Stanford, specializing in modernist and postmodernist literature. His book Comic Transactions: Literature, Humor, and the Politics of Community in Twentieth-Century Britain was published by Cornell in 1994. He is currently completing a book on prizes, awards, and the circulation of cultural value, with a working title of An Economy of Prestige. He is co-editor, with Lisa Brawley, of Postmodern Culture, an electronic journal distributed by Johns Hopkins University Press. Jim English is currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.


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MLA Style: Jim English. "From Gift to Game: Prizes in Contemporary Culture." Slought Foundation Online Content. [20 April 2000; Accessed 4 July 2009]. <http://slought.org/content/11038/>.






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