Marc Ratner to Speak on Walt Whitman and US Civil War at Friends of Hannon Library Annual Meeting

May 13, 2010 from 5:00pm to 7:00pm UTC-07
Location: Southern Oregon University's Hannon Library Meese Room 305
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(Ashland, Ore.) – Featured as part of the Friends of Hannon Library Annual Meeting at Southern Oregon University is Marc L. Ratner’s talk entitled “Walt Whitman and the Civil War” at 5:30 pm May 13, 2010, in the Meese Room (# 305) of Hannon Library at Southern Oregon University. Whitman, who was correspondent for New York newspapers and who served as a wound-dresser in hospitals in Washington, D.C., saw and understood the effects of that conflict better than many of his fellow citizens. His dispatches and his poetry reflect that understanding. The talk will be preceded by social time with light refreshments at 5 pm. The business meeting will follow Ratner’s lecture. This event closes the 2009-2010 lecture series sponsored by the Friends of Hannon Library.Marc Ratner was born in New York in 1926 and earned a Master’s Degree at the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD at New York University. He taught classes in English, Classics, and comparative literature at the University of Colorado, the University of Massachusetts and California State University, East Bay. He also taught overseas at the Universities of Frankfort and Freiburg im Breisgau, Charles University in Prague, several Universities in Brazil, and the University of Bucharest, as well as serving as an exchange professor in London. Since retiring in 1992, he has taught classes at community centers in California and continues to teach at OLLI and Elderhostel programs at Southern Oregon University.Ratner produced a critical study of William Styron in 1972, a monograph on film and fiction and numerous articles on 19th and 20th century American writers, such as Dreiser, West, Cather, Styron, Malamud, John Hawkes and others. His articles have appeared in Scandinavian Studies, Norwegian-American Studies, American Literature, Mark Twain Journal, Massachusetts Review, New England Quarterly, American Quarterly and others. He wrote an introduction to Per Seyersted’s From Norwegian Romantic to American Realist : Studies in the Life and Writings of Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (Oslo:1984), and did an introduction to a German edition of a novella by the Norwegian-American writer, H.H. Boyesen in 2008.Mark Ratner’s talk and the Friends of Hannon Library Annual Meeting are free and open to the public. Parking will be available in lots 21 and 27. For more information, call 541-552-6835.The Friends of Hannon Library is a community-based organization dedicated to the growth and development of the Library’s resources and services, while also fostering beneficial relations with the residents of the region. The Friends’ annual lecture series provides an active forum for all people interested in books, libraries, and scholarly pursuits. By joining, members directly support the Library to the benefit of students, faculty, and community patrons. Contact the Hannon Library today about becoming a member, 541-552-6816.

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Marc Ratner to Speak on Walt Whitman and US Civil War at Friends of Hannon Library Annual Meeting

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