Amlit Readers: American Literature, Culture, And History Podcast

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Sinopse

Discussion of American literature, culture, and history; connects readers to books; and offers analysis of famous first lines from books.

Episódios

  • Antigone Introduction

    30/03/2022 Duração: 40min

    Texts and authors mentioned in passing: Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Yellowstone (tv show), Smoke Signals, The Last Duel (film), Unbearable Lightness of Being, Sophocles, Socrates, Homer, western genre, tragedy

  • Yellowstone (tv show), Democracy, and Neoliberalism

    23/03/2022 Duração: 49min

    Discussion of using popular culture to understand the dynamics of democracy, civic engagement, and neoliberalism in contemporary culture. Texts mentioned include the television episode "Day Break" from Yellowstone, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Kevin Costner movies.

  • Book of Job (Old Testament) and American Literature

    07/09/2021 Duração: 37min

    Overview of the influence of the Book of Job on American literary culture. Texts and authors mentioned in passing include King James Bible, Robert Alter's translation of Job, Harold Bloom, Carl Jung, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Edward P. Jones's The Known World, poet Emily Dickinson, Pulp Fiction, Hamlet, Casablanca

  • Robert Frost Poetry

    16/05/2021 Duração: 33min

    Discussion of Robert Frost, his poems, and place within literary modernism Check out YouTube video here: LINK   Get in touch @profomalley

  • Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, Day 6

    20/04/2021 Duração: 16min

    Discussion of Moby-Dick Chapters 90-end. Check out YouTube video here: LINK   Get in touch @profomalley

  • Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, Day 5

    05/04/2021 Duração: 42min

    Overview of Moby-Dick Chapters 90-end. Comparing Ishmael and Ahab with a look at Chapter 47, The Mat-Maker, the figure of Pip as inspired by King Lear’s Fool and Ahab as a tragic figure   Check out YouTube video here: LINK   Get in touch @profomalley

  • Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, Day 4

    09/03/2021 Duração: 32min

    Overview of Chapters 46-90 with an emphasis on Chapter 54, The Town-Ho Story, that often stalls readers progression through Melville's Moby-Dick with a quick preview of the shortest Chapter 122, Midnight Aloft -- Thunder and Lightning --- Check out youtube video here: LINK Get in touch @profomalley

  • Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, Day 3

    02/03/2021 Duração: 22min

    Get started reading Moby-Dick chapters Chapter 1-45 with an emphasis on Chapter 36 The Quarter-Deck. Check out the youtube video of the lecture: LINK Get in touch @profomalley  

  • Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, Day 2

    20/02/2021 Duração: 23min

    Get started reading Moby-Dick chapters 1-45. Check out the youtube video of the lecture: LINK Get in touch @profomalley

  • Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, Day 1

    14/02/2021 Duração: 40min

    Introduction to the first pages and chapters of Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick. Check out the youtube video of the lecture: LINK Get in touch @profomalley

  • Choice Book, Day 1

    15/06/2020 Duração: 23min
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter Day 2 (parts i and ii)

    26/05/2020 Duração: 30min

    For Wednesday, May 27, 2020

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter Day 1

    23/05/2020 Duração: 24min

    Reading The Scarlet Letter, Chapters 1-5

  • Congratulations UNK Phi Eta Sigma 2020 Graduates

    08/05/2020 Duração: 20min

    Listen to a message from Phi Eta Sigma faculty adviser to graduating college seniors with tips on how to mark this special occasion during a time of social distancing.  Congratulations Class of 2020!  Mentioned in passing: Malcolm Goldsmith's "What Got You Here Won't Get You There"; Theodore Roosevelt's "Man in the Arena" (speech); Olaudah Equiano's Autobiography; Henry David Thoreau's "Walden"; "Wicked" (musical). You can also watch the episode on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPv1stC4sSA&feature=youtu.be 

  • Burr by Gore Vidal: First-Line Book Club

    17/11/2019 Duração: 37min

    Introduce yourself to Gore Vidal’s Burr (1973) with a book-club discussion of its first line. An “it” book from 1973 Texts/authors mentioned in passing: Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon, Hamilton (musical), Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton (biography), Leonora Sansay’s The Secret History: The Horrors of Santo Domingo, Michael Drexler and Ed White’s The Traumatic Colonel: The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr, Best Enemies (documentary), Cross Fire (tv show), Nixon (film), Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Washington Irving, The Onion (satire), Saturday Night Live, Shakespeare in Love (film), Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Edwards’s “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Charles Brockden Brown’s Arthur Merwyn, Gore Vidal’s Lincoln Tina Jordan article in NYTimes here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/books/beach-reads-summer.html You can also watch this episode on  https://youtu.be/PMND6DtPoeQ Get in touch @profomalley To join the First-Line Book Club click here: h

  • Dutch House by Ann Patchett: First-Line Book Club

    03/11/2019 Duração: 28min

    Introduce yourself to Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House (2019) with a book-club discussion of its first line. Texts/authors mentioned in passing: Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto and Truth and Beauty, Lucy Grealy’s Autobiography of a Face, Elizabeth McCracken (author), Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables, Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things, Henry James’s Turn of the Screw, Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, Bethany Frankel, A Place of Yes, James Joyce’s Dubliners, Willa Cather’s My Antonia, Olive Ann Burns’s Cold Sassy Tree, Noah Saterstorm (artist), Parnassus Books (bookstore) You can also watch this episode on  https://youtu.be/am2Szuy1_Tc Get in touch @profomalley To join the First-Line Book Club click here: https://bookclubz.com/clubs/6404/join/71bf3c/

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