Although academic traditionalists may have disapproved of Caldwell's slanted scholarship, many idealistic students were inspired by his lectures.
He was inspired by the lectures of Maurice Bowra, Warden of Wadham, who, he told me, sparked an enduring interest in antiquity.
Inspired by the lectures of Roland Barthes, Anne Carson, and Jorge Luis Borges, Kate Zambreno's Appendix Project collects eleven talks and essays written in the course of the year following the publication of Book of Mutter, Zambreno's book on her mother that took her over a decade to write.
I thought you might be interested in hearing the following anecdote, which was inspired by your lectures.
Wenzel was inspired by the lectures of circuit theorist Ernst Guillemin.
The First Telegraph Message "What hath God wrought?" Know Thyself Religious reflexions inspired by a lecture on anatomy.
This idea to use frequency sampling was originally inspired by a lecture from Professor Delchamps at Cornell University (Ref 11).
Here, after all, is a studio film about a sexually abused young working-class woman (Lily) who, inspired by a lecture from a Nietzsche-reading cobbler, takes her revenge on men.
The work was inspired by a lecture given in 1923 by the German art historian Aby Warburg on the Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest, and incorporates movement, sound, live jazz by Jason Moran on piano and projected video footage.
Somehow, he manages to sneak in Frankenstein's monster (in the novel the creature reads a popular work on Egyptian ruins by the Comte de Volney, a French Orientalist) and "Dracula," which was inspired by a lecture on Balkan superstitions by the Hungarian Orientalist Arminius Vambery.
