"Lec 25 - Students' Choice Novel: Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (cont.)" The American Novel Since 1945 (ENGL 291) In her final lecture of the course, Professor Hungerford evaluates Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated with respect to one of her areas of expertise, American writing about the Holocaust. She points out how the novel takes on some of the questions of trauma theory in its examination of both the pain and the healing power of repetition. The most innovative characteristic of Foer's novel is, for Hungerford, the way it addresses the inheritance of the Holocaust for third-generation Jews in America. The novel finds new ways to provide witness for and connection to their grandparents' experiences in Europe, but also displaces a traditional Holocaust discovery narrative from the Jewish child of survivors to the Eastern European grandchild of those complicit in the destruction of shtetl life. 00:00 - Chapter 1. How to Define a Period of Literature: Locating Foer's Significance 05:57 - Chapter 2. Trauma Theory and the Holocaust: Foer's Use of the Witness 16:40 - Chapter 3. The Double Remove: A Third Generation of Memory 31:54 - Chapter 4. Metafictional Authorship 38:32 - Chapter 5. From Victims to Perpetrators 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 24 - Students' Choice Novel: Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated