Background
Grusin, Richard Arthur was born on September 29, 1953 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Edward Maxwell and Marcia Jean Grusin.
( American literary historians have viewed Ralph Waldo Em...)
American literary historians have viewed Ralph Waldo Emerson’s resignation from the Unitarian ministry in 1832 in favor of a literary career as emblematic of a main current in American literature. That current is directed toward the possession of a self that is independent and fundamentally opposed to the “accoutrements of society and civilization” and expresses a Transcendentalist antipathy toward all institutionalized forms of religious observance. In the ongoing revision of American literary history, this traditional reading of the supposed anti-institutionalism of the Transcendentalists has been duly detailed and continually supported. Richard A. Grusin challenges both traditional and revisionist interpretations with detailed contextual studies of the hermeneutics of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Theodore Parker. Informed by the past two decades of critical theory, Grusin examines the influence of the higher criticism of the Bible—which focuses on authorship, date, place of origin, circumstances of composition, and the historical credibility of biblical writings—on these writers. The author argues that the Transcendentalist appeal to the authority of the “self” is not an appeal to a source of authority independent of institutions, but to an authority fundamentally innate.
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Media critics remain captivated by the modernist myth of the new: they assume that digital technologies such as the World Wide Web, virtual reality, and computer graphics must divorce themselves from earlier media for a new set of aesthetic and cultural principles. In this richly illustrated study, Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin offer a theory of mediation for our digital age that challenges this assumption. They argue that new visual media achieve their cultural significance precisely by paying homage to, rivaling, and refashioning such earlier media as perspective painting, photography, film, and television. They call this process of refashioning "remediation," and they note that earlier media have also refashioned one another: photography remediated painting, film remediated stage production and photography, and television remediated film, vaudeville, and radio.
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Grusin, Richard Arthur was born on September 29, 1953 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Edward Maxwell and Marcia Jean Grusin.
Bachelor in English with honors, University Illinois, 1976. Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Berkeley, 1983.
Assistant professor English College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1983—1986, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, 1986—1991, associate professor, school of literature, communications, and culture, 1991—1996, associate professor and chair, school of literature, communications, and culture, 1996—1999. Fellow, Robert Penn Warren Center Humanities Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1999—2000. Professor, school of literature, communications, and culture Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, 2000—2001.
Professor and chair of English Wayne State University, Detroit, since 2001.
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Married Ann Eleanor Gregory, July 28, 1973. Children: Sarah Lynne, Samuel Gregory.