ENGL 291: The American Novel Since 1945
Lecture 20 - Philip Roth, The Human Stain (cont.). In this lecture Professor Hungerford discusses how the novels we read are shaped by legal and market constraints. She traces a history of censorship from the Comstock laws, to the policing of Joyce's Ulysses and Ginsberg's Howl, and shows how changes in publishing practices have tended to penalize more unusual, less profitable books. Hungerford also touches on the canon debates of the 80s and 90s (citing John Guillory and Toni Morrison), and the issues of intellectual property and internationalization raised by digital literature. Finally, she points to some ways that Philip Roth, despite his controversial representations of Judaism and of women, succeeds in tackling fundamental human concerns. (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 20 - Philip Roth, The Human Stain (cont.) |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. Observing Local Bookshops: Patterns of Display and Absence |
| [00:12:28] | 2. The History of Legal Censorship in the United States |
| [00:23:43] | 3. New Forms of Censorship: The Influence of the Market |
| [00:31:41] | 4. The Other Side of the Coin: Intellectual Property and Infinite Access in the Digital Age |
| [00:35:15] | 5. Problems in Deriving the Modern Literary Canon: A Proliferation of Points of View |
| References |
| Lecture 20 - Philip Roth, The Human Stain (cont.) Instructor: Professor Amy Hungerford. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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