ENGL 291: The American Novel Since 1945
Lecture 01 - Introductions. In this first lecture Professor Hungerford introduces the course's academic requirements and some of its central concerns. She uses a magazine advertisement for James Joyce's Ulysses and an essay by Vladimir Nabokov (author of Lolita, a novel on the syllabus) to establish opposing points of view about what is required to be a competent reader of literature. The contrast between popular emotional appeal and detached artistic judgment frames literary debates from the Modernist, and through the post-45 period. In the second half of lecture, Hungerford shows how the controversies surrounding the publication of Richard Wright's Black Boy highlight the questions of truth, memory, and autobiography that will continue to resurface throughout the course. (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 01 - Introductions |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. Introduction: Major Themes |
| [00:08:07] | 2. Course Requirements |
| [00:13:43] | 3. How To Read: On Joyce and Nabokov |
| [00:29:31] | 4. Introduction to Richard Wright's "Black Boy": Autobiography and Editorial Influence |
| [00:43:58] | 5. Conclusions: "Black Boy" and Major Course Themes |
| References |
| Lecture 1 - Introductions Instructor: Professor Amy Hungerford. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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