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ENGL 291: The American Novel Since 1945

Lecture 16 - Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping (cont.). At the very beginning of the course, Professor Hungerford offered students the opportunity to pitch a novel of their choice to fill the final spot on the syllabus. Today six students rise to that challenge, presenting their arguments for why each book would complete the intellectual trajectory established thus far. While the Teaching Assistants tally the results of the class vote, Professor Hungerford provides some final thoughts about the theme of loss in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping. The effacement of the body in this novel, and the beauty of absence and hunger, result in what Hungerford terms an "anorexic aesthetic" that raises problems for feminist interpretation. (from oyc.yale.edu)

Lecture 16 - Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping (cont.)

Time Lecture Chapters
[00:00:00] 1. Novel Pitch Day
[00:02:03] 2. Emma's Pitch: "Giovanni's Room"
[00:06:44] 3. Kelsey's Pitch: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
[00:12:25] 4. Miranda's Pitch: "Play It as It Lays"
[00:18:06] 5. Will's Pitch: "Jesus' Son"
[00:22:31] 6. Eli's Pitch: "Everything Is Illuminated"
[00:28:03] 7. Roger's Pitch: "What Is the What"
[00:36:30] 8. Back to "Housekeeping": The Logic of Absence

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Lecture 16 - Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping (cont.)
Instructor: Professor Amy Hungerford. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov].

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Lecture 01 - Introductions
Lecture 02 - Richard Wright, Black Boy
Lecture 03 - Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
Lecture 04 - Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood (cont.)
Lecture 05 - Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Lecture 06 - Guest Lecture by Andrew Goldstone
Lecture 07 - Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (cont.)
Lecture 08 - Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Lecture 09 - Jack Kerouac, On the Road (cont.)
Lecture 10 - J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
Lecture 11 - John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse
Lecture 12 - Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
Lecture 13 - Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
Lecture 14 - Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
Lecture 15 - Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
Lecture 16 - Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping (cont.)
Lecture 17 - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
Lecture 18 - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (cont.)
Lecture 19 - Philip Roth, The Human Stain
Lecture 20 - Philip Roth, The Human Stain (cont.)
Lecture 21 - Philip Roth, The Human Stain (cont.)
Lecture 22 - Edward P. Jones, The Known World
Lecture 23 - Edward P. Jones, The Known World (cont.)
Lecture 24 - Students'Choice Novel: Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
Lecture 25 - Students'Choice Novel: Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
Lecture 26 - Review for Final Exam