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From Gift to Game: Prizes in Contemporary Culture
Jim English
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Listen to a 82 minute recording, or download the file
Event Date: Thursday, April 20, 2000
Location: Slought Foundation at University of Pennsylvania
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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.
Organized by
Aaron Levy, Gregory Flaxman
Media files on the Slought.org website are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.
MLA Style:
Jim English. "From Gift to Game: Prizes in Contemporary Culture." Slought Foundation Online Content. [20 April 2000;
Accessed 18 March 2010]. <http://slought.org/content/11038/>.
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