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Contemporary American Literature: Exploring Modern Masters

Unlock Literary Worlds: Dive Deep into Iconic Novels and Transformational Narratives with Yale's Insightful Course!

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What you'll learn

Recognize key themes and styles in contemporary and modern literature.
Analyze literary works by prominent authors like Nabokov, Kerouac, and Morrison.
Understand the context and impact of postcolonial and feminist criticism.
Explore the development of narrative techniques and their uses in different texts.

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172.5 hours of video
Certificate of completion
Access on mobile and TV

Course content

1 modules • 204 lessons • 172.5 hours of video

Contemporary American Literature: Exploring Modern Masters

204 lessons • 172.5 hours

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1. Introductions47:35
2. Richard Wright, Black Boy50:30
3. Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood47:07
4. Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood (cont.)44:46
5. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita51:31
6. Guest Lecture by Andrew Goldstone43:25
7. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (cont.)46:43
8. Jack Kerouac, On the Road47:47
9. Jack Kerouac, On the Road (cont.)45:52
10. J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey47:30
11. John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse49:10
12. Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 4949:27
13. Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye50:00
14. Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior50:56
15. Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping46:51
16. Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping (cont.)49:29
17. Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian50:13
18. Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (cont.)40:19
19. Philip Roth, The Human Stain48:52
20. Philip Roth, The Human Stain (cont.)49:35
21. Philip Roth, The Human Stain (cont.)45:58
22. Edward P. Jones, The Known World50:58
23. Edward P. Jones, The Known World (cont.)46:43
24. Students' Choice Novel: Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated45:48
25. Students' Choice Novel: Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (cont.)48:56
Linguistics, Style and Writing in the 21st Century - with Steven Pinker53:40
Harvard ENGL E-129 - Lecture 1: Introduction01:18:44
Harvard ENGL E-129 - Lecture 2: Troilus and Cressida01:54:28
Harvard ENGL E-129 - Lecture 3: Measure for Measure01:55:35
Harvard ENGL E-129 - Lecture 4: Othello01:49:30
Chaucer: what is hidden in the Canterbury Tales by Dolores Cullen37:08
Rickert & Manly: How two WWI code breakers produced the preeminent edition of The Canterbury Tales45:07
The first 18 lines of the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales in Middle English04:34
Frieze Lecture: "The Metamorphosis" 100 years later41:15
Unlearning Our Loneliness Week V: Perils of Self-Deception56:40
An introduction to Anton Chekhov | National Theatre06:54
1. Introduction47:27
1. Introduction39:29
2. Introduction (cont.)46:30
3. Ways In and Out of the Hermeneutic Circle46:44
4. Configurative Reading52:14
5. The Idea of the Autonomous Artwork46:25
6. The New Criticism and Other Western Formalisms50:07
7. Russian Formalism48:57
8. Semiotics and Structuralism51:30
9. Linguistics and Literature49:54
10. Deconstruction I51:43
11. Deconstruction II52:58
12. Freud and Fiction50:40
13. Jacques Lacan in Theory51:09
14. Influence51:16
15. The Postmodern Psyche52:50
16. The Social Permeability of Reader and Text50:09
17. The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory51:36
18. The Political Unconscious53:45
19. The New Historicism53:22
20. The Classical Feminist Tradition52:24
21. African-American Criticism53:58
22. Post-Colonial Criticism54:42
23. Queer Theory and Gender Performativity49:54
24. The Institutional Construction of Literary Study50:52
25. The End of Theory?; Neo-Pragmatism53:33
26. Reflections; Who Doesn't Hate Theory Now?49:47
Lecture 1. The Parts of the Whole45:46
Lecture 2. The Hebrew Bible in Its Ancient Near Eastern Setting: Biblical Religion in Context46:12
Lecture 3. The Hebrew Bible in Its Ancient Near Eastern Setting: Genesis 1-4 in Context47:43
Lecture 4. Doublets and Contradictions, Seams and Sources47:52
Lecture 5. Critical Approaches to the Bible: Introduction to Genesis 12-5048:44
Lecture 6. Biblical Narrative: The Stories of the Patriarchs (Genesis 12-36)49:16
Lecture 7. Israel in Egypt: Moses and the Beginning of Yahwism (Genesis 37- Exodus 4)46:03
Lecture 8. Exodus: From Egypt to Sinai (Exodus 5-24, 32; Numbers)47:34
Lecture 9. The Priestly Legacy: Cult and Sacrifice, Purity and Holiness in Leviticus and Numbers48:35
Lecture 10. Biblical Law: The Three Legal Corpora of JE (Exodus), P (Leviticus and Numbers) and D50:42
Lecture 11. On the Steps of Moab: Deuteronomy47:55
Lecture 12. The Deuteronomistic History: Life in the Land (Joshua and Judges)50:18
Lecture 13. The Deuteronomistic History: Prophets and Kings (1 and 2 Samuel)49:31
Lecture 14. The Deuteronomistic History: Response to Catastrophe (1 and 2 Kings)51:34
Lecture 15. Hebrew Prophecy: The Non-Literary Prophets49:50
Lecture 16. Literary Prophecy: Amos47:59
Lecture 17. Literary Prophecy: Hosea and Isaiah48:58
Lecture 18. Literary Prophecy: Micah, Zephaniah, Nahum and Habbakuk48:40
Lecture 19. Literary Prophecy: Perspectives on the Exile (Jeremiah, Ezekiel and 2nd Isaiah)47:07
Lecture 20. Responses to Suffering and Evil: Lamentations and Wisdom Literature52:53
Lecture 21. Biblical Poetry: Psalms and Song of Songs48:39
Lecture 22. The Restoration: 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah49:17
Lecture 23. Visions of the End: Daniel and Apocalyptic Literature49:50
Lecture 24. Alternative Visions: Esther, Ruth, and Jonah28:54
ENGL 3328 LECTURE 1A01:13:57
ENGL 3328 LECTURE 1B01:13:13
ENGL 3328 LECTURE 2A01:12:35
ENGL 3328 LECTURE 2B01:17:26
ENGL 3328 LECTURE 3A01:13:00
ENGL 3328 LECTURE 3B01:15:59
ENGL 3328 LECTURE 4A01:14:08
ENGL 3328 LECTURE 4B01:17:19
ENGL 3328 LECTURE 5A01:17:41
ENGL 3328 LECTURE 5B01:16:44
ENGL 3328 LECTURE 6A01:16:22
ENGL 3328 LECTURE 6B01:17:12
ENGL 3328 LECTURE 7A01:16:15
ENGL 3328 LECTURE 7B01:17:08
ENGL 3328 LECTURE 8A01:16:26
ENGL 3328 LECTURE 8B01:17:13
ENGL 3328 LECTURE 9A01:17:04
ENGL 3328 LECTURE 9B01:17:09
ENGL 3328 LECTURE 10A01:19:00
ENGL 3328 LECTURE 10B01:17:22
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 1A53:31
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 1B54:05
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 1C54:06
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 2A48:34
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 2B54:03
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 2C49:07
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 3A52:41
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 3B49:06
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 3C58:20
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 4A47:38
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 4B54:14
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 4C51:13
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 5A48:08
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 5B49:06
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 5C55:21
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 6A48:33
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 6B49:06
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 6C49:03
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 7A50:04
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 7B49:05
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 7C49:05
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 8A48:31
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 8B53:56
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 8C49:06
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 9A48:16
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 9B49:19
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 9C54:07
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 10A48:39
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 10B49:07
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 10C49:07
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 11A53:26
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 11B48:55
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 11C48:46
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 12A48:27
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 12B54:06
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 12C49:07
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 13A53:22
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 13B49:13
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 13C54:13
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 14A47:54
ENGL 3327 LECTURE 14B48:26
What is Literary Criticism?06:13
What is New Criticism?04:28
What is Reader Response?03:11
What is Deconstruction?06:51
What is Psychological Criticism?03:56
What is Feminist Criticism?03:29
What is Historical Criticism?04:21
1. Introduction43:09
2. Hemingway's In Our Time49:55
3. Hemingway's In Our Time, Part II50:04
4. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby48:55
5. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Part II50:08
6. Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury50:06
7. Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Part II48:21
8. Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Part III45:58
9. Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Part IV51:03
10. Hemingway -- To Have and Have Not48:32
11. Hemingway -- To Have and Have Not48:19
12. Fitzgerald -- "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", etc.49:29
13. Faulkner -- As I Lay Dying48:17
14. Faulkner -- As I Lay Dying, Part II48:33
15. Faulkner -- As I Lay Dying49:49
16. Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls48:41
17. Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls45:34
18. Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls (continued)47:19
19. Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls (continued)49:06
20. Fitzgerald - Tender Is the Night47:08
21. Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (continued)51:03
22. Faulkner, Light in August49:30
23. Faulkner, Light in August (continued)49:54
24. Faulkner, Light in August (continued)50:57
25. Faulkner, Light in August (continued)48:32
2. Robert Frost46:06
3. Robert Frost (cont.)50:05
4. William Butler Yeats45:42
5. William Butler Yeats (cont.)48:04
6. William Butler Yeats (cont.)44:44
7. World War I Poetry in England53:04
8. Imagism46:15
9. Ezra Pound52:04
10. T.S. Eliot49:47
11. T.S. Eliot (cont.)49:59
12. T.S. Eliot (cont.)49:58
13. Hart Crane39:21
14. Hart Crane (cont.)46:37
15. Langston Hughes45:58
16. William Carlos Williams48:27
17. Marianne Moore43:26
18. Marianne Moore (cont.)42:44
19. Wallace Stevens51:09
20. Wallace Stevens (cont.)50:22
21. Wallace Stevens (cont.)51:17
22. W. H. Auden44:38
23. W. H. Auden (cont.)51:17
24. Elizabeth Bishop47:17
25. Elizabeth Bishop (cont.)41:25