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Aliens, Time Travel, and Dresden -Slaughterhouse-Five Part I: Crash Course Literature 212
In which John Green teaches you about Kurt Vonnegut's most famous novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. Vonnegut wrote the book in the Vietnam era, and it closely mirrors his personal experiences in World War II, as long as you throw out the time...
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The Handmaid's Tale, Part 2: Crash Course Literature 404
This week, John Green continues to teach you about Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction, The Handmaid's Tale. In this installment, we're looking at Atwood's desire to tell a story from a female point of view, and what exactly it means...
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The Parable of the Sower: Crash Course Literature 406
This week, John is teaching you about the near-future dystopia in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower. Parable of the Sower tells the story of Lauren Oya Olamina, and her life growing up in a post-climate change, semi-lawless America....
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100 Years of Solitude Part 1: Crash Course Literature 306
Our first of two episodes about Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel, 100 Years of Solitude. This week, we're looking at the Buendia family, and their many generations of people with the same names. We'll also look at the fascinating way the...
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Candide: Crash Course Literature 405
John Green teaches you about Voltaire's hugely important Enlightenment novel, Candide. Candide tells a pretty wild story, but for the most part, it's about the best of all possible worlds. Which, spoiler alert, doesn't seem to be the...
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Was Gatsby Great? The Great Gatsby Part 2: Crash Course English Literature
In which John Green continues to explore F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby. In this installment, John looks into the titular Gatsby's purported Greatness. Gatsby's single-minded pursuit of Daisy, his checkered past, and his...
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Things Fall Apart, Part 2: Crash Course Literature 209
In which John Green concludes teaching you about Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. You'll learn about the historical contexts of Things Fall Apart, including 19th century colonization and 20th century decolonization. We're going to...
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Lord of the Flies: Crash Course Literature 305
This week, John i s talking about one of his least favorite novels, The Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Lord of the Flies is a novel of ideas, and John doesn't agree with the central idea of the novel, which diminished his...
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Free Will, Witches, Murder, and Macbeth, Part 1: Crash Course Literature 409
The Sound! The Fury! Today, we're talking about Shakespeare's Scottish play, Macbeth. So, was Macbeth really predestined to do all the murdering and bad kinging and other terrible stuff? That's the big question in Macbeth, and it's one...
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Ophelia, Gertrude, and Regicide - Hamlet II: Crash Course Literature 204
In which John Green teaches you MORE about Bill Shakespeare's Hamlet. John talks about gender roles in Hamlet, and what kind of power and agency Ophelia and Gertrude had, if they had any at all (spoiler alert: we think they did). You'll...
Gresham College
Cultural Misfits: Gender in Early Twentieth-century Literature - Professor Georgia Johnston
Gender and literature in the early 20th century, from W.B. Yeats' 'Crazy Jane' to Gertrude Stein's 'Patriarchal Poetry', covering T. S. Eliot, Stevie Smith, H.D. and others along the way:...
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The birth of world literature
Professor Martin Puchner explores how the concept of World Literature came into being, describing the conversations of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Peter Eckermann. From our free online course, “Masterpieces of World Literature”:...
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Where to Start With Post-Postmodern Literature
Books that belong to a current that might possibly not exist, but that are nonetheless all awesome. And The Corrections too! *dapa-ching!* JKNG The Corrections is pretty dope. What Is Postmodernist Literature? An Introduction:...
Southbank Centre
The Odyssey in (just over) a Minute | London Literature Festival
We love a challenge so we thought to celebrate this year's London Literature Festival, why not try to condense Homer's epic story of The Odyssey into less than 2 minutes using animation? Find out more about London Literature Festival at...
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1960s American Literature
Where to begin with 1960s American literature! For a complete list of the books discussed in this video, visit http://www.climbthestacks.com/blog/2016/6/18/1960s-american-literature Bookish Links Website: http://www.climbthestacks.com/...
The Guardian
Literature and gaming collide to create new opportunities for book publishers and writers
Literature and gaming collide to create new opportunities for book publishers and writers Subscribe to the Guardian HERE: http://bitly.com/UvkFpD The Media Network visited Digital Enterprise Greenwich to find out how two startups and one...
The Guardian
Alice Munro: Canadian short-story master wins Nobel prize in literature
Alice Munro: Canadian short-story master wins Nobel prize in literature Subscribe to the Guardian HERE: http://bitly.com/UvkFpD The Canadian writer Alice Munro, acclaimed as the 'master of the contemporary short story', has been awarded...
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McCarthy's Horror & Ulysses Classes - This Month in Literature June 2018
My Patreon page, where I publish "This Week in Literature" collections every Tuesday at 5 pm (Italian time): https://www.patreon.com/TheBookchemist C21 Literature: https://c21.openlibhums.org/issues/ Sarah Dillon's "The Horror of the...
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Macbeth: Is Literature Dead? [BestBooksEver#3]
Is literature as dead as everyone in Act 5? Check out the trailers of some of these Macbeth movies: 1971: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysd5gwHfG1w 2010, Patrick Stewart's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9jArQHXZtc 2015:...
Gresham College
George Sand's Contribution to Literature - Professor Belinda Jack
George Sand has had an profound impact on modern literature, and yet she is relatively unknown to a British audience. Belinda Jack, The Gresham Professor of Rhetoric aims to change that by focusing on her work ‘Francois le Champi’ in her...
Atomi
A Level English Literature – Postcolonial Ways of Reading
In this video we'll look at centuries of rampant colonialism and its impact on literature and literary criticism, as part of the Theory and Independence aspect of your A Level English Literature exam. Have you noticed issues of race in...
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Supporting the Main Idea- Literature
Supporting the Main Idea Literature analyzes literature by showing how examples of paraphrasing and quotes support the main idea about the text.
Wonderscape
Literature Kids: Understanding Point of View in Literature
This video is a teacher explaining the different points of view used in storytelling. The teacher discusses first person, second person, and third person points of view, and provides examples from literature to illustrate each. The video...
Cerebellum
The Renaissance - Music, Literature And Theatre
No period of history can boast of greater beauty than The Renaissance. This was the period, from approximately early 14th century to late 16th century, that gave us Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Shakespeare. This video discusses...
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