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by Arnold Weinstein

  • Narrated by: Arnold Weinstein
  • Series: The Great Courses: English Literature
  • Length: 43 hrs and 55 mins
  • Release date: 07-08-13
  • Language: English

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.

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Author

Arnold Weinstein, The Great Courses

Language

English

Length

43 hrs and 55 mins

Narrated by

Arnold Weinstein

Release date

07-08-13

Series

The Great Courses: English Literature

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