Literature

How and Why We Read: Crash Course English Literature #1

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Duration: 7:00
Updated: 20 Aug 2013

In which John Green kicks off the Crash Course Literature mini series with a reasonable set of questions. Why do we read? What's the point of reading critica...

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Like Pale Gold - The Great Gatsby Part I: Crash Course English Literature #4

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Duration: 11:43
Updated: 20 Aug 2013

In which John Green explores F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of the Jazz Age, The Great Gatsby. John introduces you to Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, Daisy and Tom B...

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Hysterical Literature: Session Nine: Marne (Official)

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Duration: 7:29
Updated: 30 Jan 2014

Support literature, purchase the book: http://amzn.to/1jMbTow Marne visits the studio and reads from "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" by John Ashbery. Watch other videos in the series, read essays from the participants and writers, and answers to frequently asked questions: http://hystericalliterature.com

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Why Read: The Importance of the Liberal Arts - Literature Against Philosophy (2004)

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Duration: 56:56
Updated: 09 Aug 2013

The liberal arts (Latin: artes liberales) are those subjects or skills that in classical antiquity were considered essential for a free person (a citizen) to...

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Hysterical Literature: Session One: Stoya (Official)

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Duration: 6:53
Updated: 20 Aug 2013

Support literature, purchase the book: http://amzn.to/M4MkyY Stoya visits the studio and reads from "Necrophilia Variations" by Supervert. Directed by Clayto...

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Alice Munro, In Her Own Words: 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature

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Duration: 29:21
Updated: 07 Dec 2013

The Nobel Lecture in Literature this year is replaced by a pre-recorded video conversation with Alice Munro, Nobel Laureate in Literature. The event is held at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm.

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Don't Reanimate Corpses! Frankenstein Part 1: Crash Course Literature 205

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Duration: 12:57
Updated: 27 Mar 2014

In which John Green teaches you about Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein. Sure, you know Frankenstein the cultural phenomenon, but how much do you know about the novel that started it all? You'll learn about the Romantic movement in English lit, of which Frankenstein is a GREAT example, and you'll learn that Frankenstein might just be the first SciFi novel. Once again, literature comes down to just what it means to be human. John will review the plot, and take you through a couple of different critical readings of the novel, and will discuss the final disposition of Percy Shelley's heart.

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Christopher Hitchens on Literature and Politics: Oscar Wilde, George Orwell, Salman Rushdie (2001)

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Duration: 69:35
Updated: 19 Aug 2013

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 -- 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880...

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Ghosts, Murder, and More Murder - Hamlet Part I: Crash Course Literature 203

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Duration: 12:24
Updated: 14 Mar 2014

You can directly support Crash Course at http://www.subbable.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Free is nice, but if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing this content. In which John Green teaches you about Hamlet, William Shakespeare's longest and most-performed play. People love Hamlet. The play that is, not necessarily the character. Hamlet is a Tragedy with a capital T (I guess I don't have to point that out, since you can see clearly in the text that the T was capitalized). By Tragedy, I mean virtually everyone dies at the end. John will talk a little bit about the history of the play and the different versions of it that have appeared in the centuries since it was written. You'll also learn about some of the big themes in the play, get a brief plot overview, and the all important connections between Prince Hamlet and Simba, the Lion King. Seriously though, The Lion King is totally just a Hamlet musical with animals instead of people.

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Aliens, Time Travel, and Dresden -Slaughterhouse-Five Part I: Crash Course Literature 212

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Duration: 10:34
Updated: 15 May 2014

You can directly support Crash Course at http://www.subbable.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Free is nice, but if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing this content. 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 travel and aliens and porn stars and stuff. Slaughterhouse-Five tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, a World War II veteran who was a prisoner of war, and survived the Battle of the Bulge and the fire-bombing of Dresden, goes home after the war, and has trouble adapting to civilian life (this is the part that's like Vonnegut's own experience). Billy Pilgrim has flashbacks to the war that he interprets as being "unstuck in time." He believes he's been abducted by aliens, and pretty much loses it. You'll learn a little about Vonnegut's life, quite a bit about Dresden, and probably more than you'd like about barbershop quartets as a metaphor for post traumatic stress.

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A Long and Difficult Journey, or The Odyssey: Crash Course Literature 201

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Duration: 12:07
Updated: 27 Feb 2014

You can directly support Crash Course at http://www.subbable.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Free is nice, but if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing this content. In which John Green teaches you about Homer's Odyssey. If it was Homer's If Homer was even real. Anyway, that stuff doesn't really matter. John teaches you the classic, by which I mean classical, epic poem, the Odyssey. The Journey of Odysseus as he made his way home after the conclusion of the Trojan War is the stuff of legend. Literally. John will teach you about the double standard in Greek culture, Odysseus as jerk/hero, ancient PTSD, and cycles of violence. Also, there are no yogurt jokes. So think of that as a gift. Our Subbable lead sponsor this week is Damian Shaw, who wants to thank Bryonie, Stew, Maureen, Peter & Morgan for their support. Our Subbable co-sponsors are: Max Loutzenheiser Katy Cocco

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Mr. Osborne - British Literature Unit Preview 4 - The Romantic Period

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Duration: 8:54
Updated: 05 Aug 2013

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Reggie Watts - TEACH: LITERATURE

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Duration: 6:10
Updated: 11 Feb 2014

Welcome to TEACH: LITERATURE with Reggie Watts. In today's episode, Mr. Watts and his class analyze "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Of Mice and Men". SUBSCRIBE to Reggie's channel here: http://bit.ly/REGGIEsubscribe Connect with Jash Online: Follow Jash on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Jash Like Jash on Facebook: http://Facebook.com/JashNetwork Check Out Friends of Jash: Sarah Silverman: http://www.youtube.com/user/SilvermanVideos Michael Cera: http://www.youtube.com/user/MichaelCeraJash Tim and Eric: http://www.youtube.com/user/TimandEricJash Reggie Watts: http://www.youtube.com/user/ReggieWattsJash Stock Footage Provided by Pond5: www.pond5.com About Jash: Founded and featuring original content by partners Sarah Silverman, Michael Cera, Tim and Eric, and Reggie Watts, JASH is the first fully realized network to offer all its comedic partners complete creative autonomy. At Jash we always strive to offer a variety of content with a unique voice: boundaries will be pushed, and disorientation is sure to ensue. Reggie Watts - TEACH: LITERATURE http://www.youtube.com/user/JashNetwork

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David Foster Wallace on Commercial literature and reading

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Duration: 4:19
Updated: 17 Aug 2013

Edited version of the ZDFmediatek interview with David Foster Wallace. This version offers David Foster Wallace's ideas, without repetitions, long pauses, in...

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PTSD and Alien Abduction - Slaughterhouse-Five Part 2: Crash Course Literature 213

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Duration: 10:26
Updated: 22 May 2014

You can directly support Crash Course at http://www.subbable.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Free is nice, but if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing this content. In which John Green continues to teach you about Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. (WARNING: When Slaughterhouse-Five was published, some of the crude language in the book caused controversy. We quote one mildly controversial line in this video. If you're mature enough to read this book, you're likely mature enough to tolerate this quote, but we're obliged to warn you about it.) Anyway, this week, John is going to talk about Slaughterhouse-Five's status as an anti-war novel, and what exactly anti-war novels are good for. He'll also get into the idea of free will, and to what degree Billy Pilgrim's time-travel and abduction by aliens were hallucinations induced by posttraumatic stress disorder. John will even give you an interpretation of why the Tralfamadorians look like toilet plungers. Hint: it has to do with plunging metaphorical toilets.

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To Kill a Mockingbird, Part I - Crash Course Literature 210

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Duration: 11:55
Updated: 01 May 2014

You can directly support Crash Course at http://www.subbable.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Free is nice, but if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing this content. In which John Green teaches you about Harper Lee's famous (and only) novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. John will cover a bit about Harper Lee's personal life, (seeing as this novel has some autobiographical elements) and her long association with Truman Capote, who figures as a character in the book. You'll get an overview of the plot, and we'll talk a bit about Mockingbird as an example of bildungsroman (again(man, this description is heavy on parentheses)) and Southern Gothic, and look into the novel as a commentary on the racism and patriarchy of the Alabama in which Harper Lee grew up.

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9. Linguistics and Literature

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Duration: 49:54
Updated: 14 Sep 2012

Introduction to Theory of Literature (ENGL 300) In this lecture on the work of Roman Jakobson, Professor Paul Fry continues his discussion of synchrony and d...

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Slavery, Ghosts, and Beloved: Crash Course Literature 214

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Duration: 11:39
Updated: 29 May 2014

In which John Green teaches you about Beloved by Toni Morrison. I'll warn you up front, this book is something of a downer. That's because it deals with subjects like slavery, the death of a child, a potential haunting, and a bunch of other sad stuff. John will talk about Beloved in relation to slavery, and how that terrible institution affected individuals, families, and all of American culture in the years surrounding the Civil War. We will also not be getting into whether or not Beloved was a ghost, because it really has no bearing on what the book has to say. Also, as usual, spoilers abound, so we recommend you read the book before you watch this video!

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Hysterical Literature: Session Two: Alicia (Official)

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Duration: 11:43
Updated: 20 Aug 2013

Support literature, purchase the book: http://amzn.to/ND6MV3 Alicia visits the studio and reads from "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman. Directed by Clayton C...

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Things Fall Apart, Part 2: Crash Course Literature 209

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Duration: 9:30
Updated: 24 Apr 2014

You can directly support Crash Course at http://www.subbable.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Free is nice, but if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing this content. 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 learn a little bit about Achebe's childhood between two cultures, cover Okonkwo's sad, sad end, and even learn a little about The Babysitters Club.

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Crash Course Literature 2 Preview

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Duration: 1:43
Updated: 13 Feb 2014

In which John Green teaches you about a future in which he'll teach you about literature! Here is the reading list: The Odyssey by Homer http://dft.ba/-7V5t Oedipus Rex by Sophocles http://dft.ba/-7Uo8 Hamlet by Bill Shakespeare http://dft.ba/-7VDy Frankenstein by Mary Shelley http://dft.ba/-7U9n Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë http://dft.ba/-7U9o To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee http://dft.ba/-7V8z Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut http://dft.ba/-7U9p Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe http://dft.ba/-7VDB Beloved by Toni Morrison http://dft.ba/-7VDC Many of these books also have free editions available. Try the amazing and awesome Project Gutenberg at http://www.gutenberg.org

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Kumail Nanjiani Plays "Tweet Or Literature"

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Duration: 1:39
Updated: 09 Apr 2014

CONAN Highlight: Now that the Library of Congress catalogues all tweets, Kumail's got a fun game to test your knowledge of great writing. More CONAN @ http://teamcoco.com/video Team Coco is the official YouTube channel of late night host Conan O'Brien, CONAN on TBS & TeamCoco.com. Subscribe now to be updated on the latest videos: http://bit.ly/W5wt5D For Full Episodes of CONAN on TBS, visit http://teamcoco.com/video Get Social With Team Coco: On Facebook: ‪https://www.facebook.com/TeamCoco‬ On Google+: https://plus.google.com/+TeamCoco/ On Twitter: http://twitter.com/TeamCoco On Tumblr: http://teamcoco.tumblr.com On YouTube: http://youtube.com/teamcoco Follow Conan O'Brien on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ConanOBrien

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A* 'Relationships' Poetry Answer (32/36) - GCSE English Literature

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Duration: 16:44
Updated: 16 Apr 2014

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