Amlit Readers: American Literature, Culture, And History Podcast
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editora: Podcast
- Duração: 20:40:33
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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
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Antigone Introduction
30/03/2022 Duração: 40minTexts 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
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Yellowstone (tv show), Democracy, and Neoliberalism
23/03/2022 Duração: 49minDiscussion 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.
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Book of Job (Old Testament) and American Literature
07/09/2021 Duração: 37minOverview 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
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Robert Frost Poetry
16/05/2021 Duração: 33minDiscussion of Robert Frost, his poems, and place within literary modernism Check out YouTube video here: LINK Get in touch @profomalley
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Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, Day 6
20/04/2021 Duração: 16minDiscussion of Moby-Dick Chapters 90-end. Check out YouTube video here: LINK Get in touch @profomalley
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Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, Day 5
05/04/2021 Duração: 42minOverview 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
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Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, Day 4
09/03/2021 Duração: 32minOverview 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
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Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, Day 3
02/03/2021 Duração: 22minGet 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
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Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, Day 2
20/02/2021 Duração: 23minGet started reading Moby-Dick chapters 1-45. Check out the youtube video of the lecture: LINK Get in touch @profomalley
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Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, Day 1
14/02/2021 Duração: 40minIntroduction 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
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Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Day 1
31/05/2020 Duração: 41minFor Monday, June 1
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter Day 2 (parts i and ii)
26/05/2020 Duração: 30minFor Wednesday, May 27, 2020
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter Day 1
23/05/2020 Duração: 24minReading The Scarlet Letter, Chapters 1-5
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Congratulations UNK Phi Eta Sigma 2020 Graduates
08/05/2020 Duração: 20minListen 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
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Burr by Gore Vidal: First-Line Book Club
17/11/2019 Duração: 37minIntroduce 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
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Dutch House by Ann Patchett: First-Line Book Club
03/11/2019 Duração: 28minIntroduce 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/