Classics of American Literature
by Arnold Weinstein
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Professor Weinstein presents eighty-four lectures on the great classics of American literature, showing how such authors as Irving, Poe, Thoreau, Hemingway, and Faulkner bring the past to life, changing as each generation steps forward to interpret it anew.Tags
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Arnold Weinstein is the Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University.
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Classics of American Literature, Lecture 2: Benjamin Franklin's "Autobiography" - The First American Story by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 3: Washington Irving - The First American Storyteller by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 4: Ralph Waldo Emerson Yesterday - America's Coming of Age by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 5: Emerson Today - Architect of American Values by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 6: Emerson Tomorrow - Deconstructing Culture and Self by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 7: Henry David Thoreau - Countercultural Hero by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 8: Thoreau - Stylist and Humorist Extraordinaire by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 9: "Walden" - Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 12: Poe's Legacy - The Self as "Haunted Palace" by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 13: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the American Past by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 14: "The Scarlet Letter" - Puritan Romance by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 15: Hawthorne's "A" - Interpretation and Semiosis by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 16: "The Scarlet Letter" - Political Tract or Psychological Study? by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 17: Hawthorne Our Contemporary by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 18: Herman Melville and the Making of "Moby Dick" by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 19: The Biggest Fish Story of Them All by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 20: Ahab and the White Whale by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 21: "Moby Dick" - Tragedy of Perspective by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 22: Melville's "Benito Cereno" - American (Mis)adventure at Sea by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 23: "Benito Cereno" - Theater of Power or Power of Theater? by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 24: Walt Whitman - The American Bard Appears by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 25: Whitman - Poet of the Body by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 26: Whitman - Poet of the City by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 29: Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Unread Classic by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 30: Stowe's Representation of Slavery by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 31: Freedom and Art in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 32: Emily Dickinson - In and Out of Nature by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 33: Dickinson's Poetry - Language and Consciousness by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 34: Dickinson - Devotee of Death by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 35: Dickinson - "Amherst's Madame de Sade" by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 37: "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" - American Paradise Regained by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 38: "Huckleberry Finn" - The Banned Classic by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 39: "Huckleberry Finn" - A Child's Voice, A Child's Vision by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 40: Huckleberry Finn, American Orphan by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 41: Mark Twain's "Pudd'nhead Wilson" - Black and White Charade by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 42: Henry James and the Novel of Perception by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 43: The Turn of the Screw - Do You Believe in Ghosts? by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 44: Turning the Screw of Interpretation by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 45: Stephen Crane and the Literature of War by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 46: "The Red Badge of Courage" - Brave New World by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 47: Stephen Crane - Scientist of Human Behavior by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 48: Charlotte Perkins Gilman - War Against Patriarchy by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 49: "The Yellow Wallpaper" - Descent into Hell or Free at Last? by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 50: Robert Frost and the Spirit of New England by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 51: Robert Frost - "At Home With The Metaphor" by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 52: Robert Frost and the Fruits of the Earth by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 53: T.S. Eliot - Unloved Modern Classic by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 54: T.S. Eliot - "The Waste Land" and Beyond by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 55: F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" - American Romance by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 56: "The Great Gatsby" - A Story of Lost Illusions? by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 57: Fitzgerald's Triumph - Writing the American Dream by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 58: Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises - Novel of the Lost Generation by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 59: The Sun Also Rises - Spiritual Quest by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 60: Ernest Hemingway - Wordsmith by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 61: Hemingway's The Garden of Eden - Female Desire Unleashed by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 62: The Garden of Eden - Combat Zone by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 63: William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" - The Idiot's Tale by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 64: The Sound and the Fury - Failed Rites of Passage by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 65: The Sound and the Fury - Signifying Nothing? by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 66: Absalom, Absalom! - Civil War Epic by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 67: Absalom, Absalom! - The Language of Love by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 68: Absalom, Absalom! - The Overpass to Love by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 69: The Grapes of Wrath - American Saga by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 70: John Steinbeck - Poet of the Little Man by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 71: The Grapes of Wrath - Reconceiving Self and Family by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 72: Invisible Man - Black Bildungsroman by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 73: Invisible Man - Reconceiving History and Race by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 74: Invisible Man - "What Did I Do, to Be So Black and Blue?" by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 75: Eugene O'Neill - Great God of American Theater by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 76: Long Day's Journey into Night - There's No Place Like Home by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 77: Tennessee Williams - Managing Libido by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 78: A Streetcar Named Desire - The Death of Romance by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 79: Death of a Salesman - Death of an Ethos? by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 80: Death of a Salesman - Tragedy of the American Dream by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 81: Toni Morrison's Beloved - Dismembering and Remembering by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
Classics of American Literature, Lecture 82: Beloved - A Story of "Thick Love" by Arnold Weinstein (indirect)
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