DISQO
Literature
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The American Novel Since 1945Teacher: disqoThis course is a video playlist of lectures by Amy Hungerford of Yale.Created: 20 June 2009, Subject: Arts, Literature |
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MiltonTeacher: disqoThis course is a video playlist of lectures by John Rogers of Yale.Created: 23 June 2009, Subject: Arts, Literature |
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Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood (cont)Teacher: disqoIn this second lecture on Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood, Professor Amy Hungerford continues to offer several specific contexts in which to read and understand the novel. Having used O'Connor's... |
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The American Novel Since 1945 - An IntroductionTeacher: disqoIn this first lecture Professor Hungerford introduces the course's academic requirements and some of its central concerns. She uses a magazine advertisement for James Joyce's Ulysses and an essay... |
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Richard Wright, Black BoyTeacher: disqoProfessor Amy Hungerford continues her discussion of Richard Wright's classic American autobiography, Black Boy. Through a close analysis of key passages, she demonstrates an oscillation in the... |
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Flannery O'Connor, Wise BloodTeacher: disqoProfessor Amy Hungerford's first lecture on Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood addresses questions of faith and interpretation. She uses excerpts from O'Connor's copious correspondence to introduce... |
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Vladimir Nabokov, LolitaTeacher: disqoProfessor Amy Hungerford introduces the first of three lectures on Nabokov's Lolita by surveying students' reactions to the novel, highlighting the conflicting emotions readers feel, enjoying... |
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Nabokov and ModernismTeacher: disqoIn this guest lecture, Teaching Fellow Andrew Goldstone provides us with some key concepts for understanding Modernism and Nabokov's relation in particular to his literary forebears T. S. Eliot,... |
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Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (cont)Teacher: disqoIn the last of three lectures on Lolita, Professor Amy Hungerford discusses the broader context of Nabokov's relation to his novel: both the debate it inspires surrounding censorship and artistic... |
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Jack Kerouac, On the RoadTeacher: disqoProfessor Amy Hungerford's lecture on Kerouac's On the Road begins by contrasting the Beats' ambition for language's direct relation to lived experience with a Modernist sense of difficulty and... |
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Jack Kerouac, On the Road (cont)Teacher: disqoIn this second lecture on On The Road, Professor Hungerford addresses some of the obstacles and failures to the novel's high ambitions for achieving American community through an immediacy of... |
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J D Salinger, Franny and ZooeyTeacher: disqoIn this lecture on J. D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey, Professor Hungerford presents her argument about religion in the novel as an example to students of how to construct a sound literary critical... |
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John Barth, Lost in the FunhouseTeacher: disqoIn her lecture on John Barth's collection of stories Lost in the Funhouse, Professor Amy Hungerford delves beyond the superficial pleasures and frustrations of Barth's oft-cited metafictional... |
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Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49Teacher: disqoProfessor Hungerford introduces this lecture by reviewing the ways that authors on the syllabus up to this point have dealt with the relationship between language and life, that collection of... |
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Toni Morrison, The Bluest EyeTeacher: disqoProfessor Hungerford draws a contrast between Toni Morrison and most of the writers studied up to this point in the course by pointing out how, for an African-American woman writer in particular,... |
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Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman WarriorTeacher: disqoIn this lecture at the midpoint of the course Professor Hungerford takes stock of the syllabus thus far and to come by laying out her guiding thesis of the Identity Plot, a rubric for... |
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Marilynne Robinson, HousekeepingTeacher: disqoProfessor Hungerford situates Marilynne Robinson's novel Housekeeping (1980) in a tradition of American writing about the individual's relationship to nature that includes the powerful influences... |
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Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping (cont)Teacher: disqoAt the very beginning of the course, Professor Hungerford offered students the opportunity to pitch a novel of their choice to fill the final spot on the syllabus. Today six students rise to that... |
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Cormac McCarthy, Blood MeridianTeacher: disqoIn this first of two lectures on Blood Meridian, Professor Hungerford walks us through some of the novel's major sources and influences, showing how McCarthy engages both literary tradition and... |
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Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (cont)Teacher: disqoIn this second lecture on Blood Meridian, Professor Hungerford builds a wide-ranging argument about the status of good and evil in the novel from a small detail, the Bible the protagonist carries... |
