15. Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
The American Novel Since 1945 (ENGL 291) Professor Hungerford situates Marilynne Robinson's novel Housekeeping (1980) in a tradition of American writing about the individual's relationship to nature that includes the powerful influences of the Bible, Herman Melville, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The loss of identity that Emerson describes as becoming a "transparent eyeball" in the woods, Robinson brings into the realm of the home, the built environment. The individual voice and its guiding consciousness are all mixed up in the material substance of the world, giving them a concurrent fixity and fragility that it is Robinson's talent, and our challenge, to explore. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Names and Introductions: My Name is Ruth 10:09 - Chapter 2. Crafting Social Worlds: The Communal and the Singular 20:14 - Chapter 3. Permeable Identity: Anonymity and Ghostliness 31:03 - Chapter 4. The "Soul All Unaccompanied": Matching Language to Consciousness Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses This course was recorded in Spring 2008.
16. Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping (cont.)
8. Jack Kerouac, On the Road
7. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (cont.)
SHE KNOCKED ON THE DOOR OF THE MAN WHO HAD BETRAYED HER PEOPLE — HANNAH ARENDT
Martha Nussbaum - The Fragility of Goodness
19. Philip Roth, The Human Stain
17. Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
Conan O’Brien Mocks Trump At Harvard Commencement | Crowd Erupts During Viral Speech
Donna Tartt interview (2014)
Sally Rooney on Normal People, with Kishani Widyaratna
Ingeborg Bachmann - Portrait & Originalaufnahmen
12. Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
9. Jack Kerouac, On the Road (cont.)
The Day You Stop Romanticizing People — Carl Jung
East of Eden by John Steinbeck- Audiobook (abridged)
11. John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse
5. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Sylvia Plath Interview.
