"Lec 24 - Students' Choice Novel: Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated" The American Novel Since 1945 (ENGL 291) In this first of two lectures on the students' choice end-of-semester novel, Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated (2002), Professor Hungerford models several methods for approaching and evaluating a new work of fiction. She shows how Foer borrows and adapts themes and styles from other authors on the syllabus in service to his ambition as a writer to demonstrate the power of narrative fiction to address the great historical traumas of our time. In thus attempting to marry the nineteenth-century social novel with Postmodernist, or late Modernist, techniques, Foer participates in an emerging tradition that risks the confusion between resonant emotion and sentimental cliché. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Foer's Formative Ambition 03:58 - Chapter 2. Dialog with the Literary Tradition 11:23 - Chapter 3. Absence at the Heart of Desire: Foer's Negative Spaces 22:05 - Chapter 4. Bringing Together Sentiment and Formal Play: A Social Postmodern Novel 26:39 - Chapter 5. The Campus Novel 31:32 - Chapter 6. Sentiment vs. Sentimentality Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses This course was recorded in Spring 2008.
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Lec 2 - Richard Wright, Black Boy
Lec 3 - Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
Lec 4 - Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood (cont.)
Lec 5 - Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Lec 6 - Guest Lecture by Andrew Goldstone
Lec 7 - Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (cont.)
Lec 8 - Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Lec 9 - Jack Kerouac, On the Road (cont.)
Lec 10 - J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
Lec 11 - John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse
Lec 12 - Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
Lec 13 - Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
Lec 14 - Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
Lec 15 - Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
Lec 16 - Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping (cont.)
Lec 17 - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
Lec 18 - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (cont.)
Lec 19 - Philip Roth, The Human Stain
Lec 20 - Philip Roth, The Human Stain (cont.)
Lec 21 - Philip Roth, The Human Stain (cont.)
Lec 22 - Edward P. Jones, The Known World
Lec 23 - Edward P. Jones, The Known World (cont.)
Lec 25 - Students' Choice Novel: Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (cont.)