The American Novel Since 1945 - Audio
by Amy Hungerford
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Description
(ENGL 291) In The American Novel Since 1945 students will study a wide range of works from 1945 to the present. The course traces the formal and thematic developments of the novel in this period, focusing on the relationship between writers and readers, the conditions of publishing, innovations in the novel's form, fiction's engagement with history, and the changing place of literature in American culture. The reading list includes works by Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac, J. D. Salinger, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, Philip Roth and Edward P. Jones. The course concludes with a contemporary novel chosen by the students in the class. This course was recorded in Spring 2008.
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01 - Introductions | In 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 by Vladimir Nabokov (author of Lolita, a novel on the syllabus) to establish opposing points of view about what is required to be a competent reader of literature. The contrast between popular emotional appeal and detached artistic judgment frames literary debates from the Modernist, and through the post-45 period. In the second half of lecture, Hungerford shows how the controversies surrounding the publication of Richard Wright's Black Boy highlight the questions of truth, memory, and autobiography that will continue to resurface throughout the course. | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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02 - Richard Wright, Black Boy | -- | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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03 - Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood | -- | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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04 - Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood (cont.) | -- | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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05 - Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita | -- | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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06 - Guest Lecture by Teaching Fellow Andrew Goldstone | -- | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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07 - Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (cont.) | -- | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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08 - Jack Kerouac, On the Road | -- | 10/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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09 - Jack Kerouac, On the Road (cont.) | -- | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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10 - J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey | -- | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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11 - John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse | -- | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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12 - Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 | -- | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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13 - Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye | -- | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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14 - Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior | -- | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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15 - Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping | -- | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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16 - Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping (cont.) | -- | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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17 - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian | -- | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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18 - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (cont.) | -- | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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19 - Philip Roth, The Human Stain | -- | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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20 - Philip Roth, The Human Stain (cont.) | -- | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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21 - Philip Roth, The Human Stain (cont.) | -- | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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22 - Edward P. Jones, The Known World | -- | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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23 - Edward P. Jones, The Known World (cont.) | -- | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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24 - Students' Choice Novel: Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated | -- | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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25 - Students' Choice Novel: Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (cont.) | -- | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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26 - Review for Final Exam | -- | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 26 Episodes |
