AmLit Readers: American Literature, Culture, and History Podcast

AmLit Readers: American Literature, Culture, and History Podcast

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AmLit Readers: American Literature, Culture, and History Podcast episodes

  • Antigone Introduction
    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
    41 min
  • Yellowstone (tv show), Democracy, and Neoliberalism
    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.
    50 min
  • Book of Job (Old Testament) and American Literature
    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
    38 min
  • Robert Frost Poetry
    Discussion of Robert Frost, his poems, and place within literary modernism
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    34 min
  • Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, Day 5
    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
     
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    43 min
  • Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, Day 4
    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
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    33 min

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