Background
Franklin, Wayne S. was born on July 28, 1945 in Albany. Son of William F. Franklin and Harriet A. Denny.
( What connections can be drawn between oral history and ...)
What connections can be drawn between oral history and the shopping mall? Gospel music and the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant? William Carlos Williams's Patterson and the Manhattan Project's secret cities? The answers lie in this insightful collection of essays that read and illuminate the American landscape. Through literature and folklore, music and oral history, autobiography, architecture, and photography, eleven leading writers and thinkers explore the dialectic between space and place in modern American life. The result is an eloquent and provocative reminder of the environmental context of events—the deceptively simple fact that events “take place.”
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"Send those on land that will show themselves diligent writers." So urged the "sailing instructions" prepared for explorer Henry Hudson. With distinctive command of the primary texts created by such "diligent writers" as Columbus, William Bradford, and Thomas Jefferson, Wayne Franklin describes how the New World was created from their new words. The long verbal discovery of America, he asserts, entailed both advance and retreat, sudden insights and blind insistence on old ways of seeing. The discoverers, explorers, and settlers depicted America in words—or via maps, tables, and landscape views—as a complex spatial and political entity, a place where ancient formula and current fact were inevitably at odds.
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literature and language professor writer
Franklin, Wayne S. was born on July 28, 1945 in Albany. Son of William F. Franklin and Harriet A. Denny.
Bachelor in English, Union College, Schenectady, 1967. Master of Arts in English, University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1968. Doctor of Philosophy in English, University Pittsburgh, 1972.
Department English University Iowa, Iowa City, 1973—1994, program in American studies, 1980—1994, American Indian Native studies program, 1991—1994. Department English Northeastern University, Boston, 1994—2005. Director American studies University Connecticut, Storrs, since 2005.
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Member of Modern Language Association, American Antiquarian Society (National Endowment of the Humanities Research grant 1994), P.E.N. American Center.
Married Suzanne C. Franklin, October 14, 2000. 1 child from previous marriage Nathaniel W.