
Classics of American Literature
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Arnold Weinstein
To truly understand the United States of America, you must explore its literary tradition. Now, in this grand collection of 84 fascinating lectures, you'll get the chance to finally become familiar with America's true literary masterpieces (some you may already be familiar with, others you have yet to discover).
Professor Weinstein has crafted these lectures to explain why some works become classics while others do not, why some "immortal" works fade from our attention completely, and even why some contemporary works now being ignored or snubbed by critics may be considered immortal one day. One memorable work at a time, you'll see how each of these masterpieces shares the uncompromising uniqueness that invariably marks the entire American literary canon.
From Sleepy Hollow to The Great Gatsby and beyond, you'll journey through more than two centuries of the best writers America has yet produced, bringing out the beauty of their language, the excitement of their stories, and the value in what they say about life, power, love, adventure, and what it means, in every sense, to be American. You'll explore the roles of self-reliance and the "self-made man" in the evolution of American literature; the evolution of the American ghost story, from Poe and Hawthorne to James and Morrison; the epic strain in American literature, from Melville and Whitman to Faulkner and Ellison; the perspectives on nature revealed in poets Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, and Eliot; the tenets of Modernism in the work of Eliot, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner; the contributions of O'Neill, Miller, and Williams to American theater; and much more.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
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You can't download it and the first part is one big adFAKE!! this book isn't REALLY available
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Classics of American Literatures
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fascinating
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Exceptional scholarship
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One of the best.
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Freud Would Have Been Proud
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What made the experience of listening to Classics of American Literature the most enjoyable?
I learned a lot and I'm a teacher so this helps.What other book might you compare Classics of American Literature to and why?
Other lectures in the series.What about Professor Arnold Weinstein’s performance did you like?
Very clear, like being in the front row of the class.Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No, but I teach specific books and this is great for educating myself.Any additional comments?
There's no way to know which tracks correspond to which books/stories! Very frustrating.Great lectures, no track listing
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Would you try another book from The Great Courses and/or Professor Arnold Weinstein?
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Professor Weinstein is learned and entertaining, but he tends to be a bit tone-deaf to the transcendent or spiritual themes and authors. He doesn't seem able to follow an author to the spiritual heights. He always wants to deflate the symbols of transcendence with a kind of materialist reductionism. He's not an angry atheist type who wants to insult everything spiritual, but religious themes of Uncle Tom's Cabin for instance seem closed to him as if he is numb to ecstatic moral moments that lay the Truth bare before a reader. When discussing the moment of death in an Emily Dickenson poem, he insists that the poet is noting how people "bring out their myths" to cope with the loss. Reading the poem without that reduction gives no such impression. For me, the professor flattened the very high spiritual peaks of American literature. I hesitate to recommend this program.Prof Weinstein pushes his perspective on the books
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Very helpful and insightful!
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