Great American Novel
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Few literary terms are more hotly debated, discounted, or derided than the "Great American Novel." But while critics routinely dismiss the phrase as at best hype and as at worst exclusionary, the belief that a national literature commensurate with both the scope and the contradictions of being American persists. In this podcast Scott Yarbrough and Kirk Curnutt examine totemic works such as Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and Toni Morrison's Beloved that have been labeled GANs, exploring their themes, forms, and reception histories, asking why, when, and how they entered the literary canon. Readers beware: there be spoilers here, and other hijinks ensue...
Location:
United States
Genres:
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Description:
Few literary terms are more hotly debated, discounted, or derided than the "Great American Novel." But while critics routinely dismiss the phrase as at best hype and as at worst exclusionary, the belief that a national literature commensurate with both the scope and the contradictions of being American persists. In this podcast Scott Yarbrough and Kirk Curnutt examine totemic works such as Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and Toni Morrison's Beloved that have been labeled GANs, exploring their themes, forms, and reception histories, asking why, when, and how they entered the literary canon. Readers beware: there be spoilers here, and other hijinks ensue...
Language:
English
Contact:
3346703308
Episode 27: Filtering the Static in Don DeLillo's WHITE NOISE
Duration:01:14:34
Episode 26: Seekers of the Lonely Heart: Carson McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Duration:01:03:21
Episode 25: Surmising the Motives in Henry James's THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
Duration:01:08:20
Episode 24: Speeding Down the Highway with PLAY IT AS IT LAYS by Joan Didion
Duration:01:16:10
Episode 23: Hearing Voices in William Faulkner's AS I LAY DYING
Duration:01:25:48
Episode 22: Rambling Along the REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
Duration:01:12:52
Defining Dignity through Service in Ernest J. Gaines' A LESSON BEFORE DYING
Duration:01:06:23
Episode 20: Cracking Through the Scrub with THE YEARLING
Duration:01:10:02
Episode 19: Riding the Rocket with Thomas Pynchon's GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
Duration:01:03:40
Episode 18: We Want to Fly Away with Chopin's THE AWAKENING
Duration:00:52:21
Ep 17: Pursuing the Picaro in Saul Bellow's THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH
Duration:01:03:25
Episode 16: Classics of American Noir
Duration:01:20:22
Searching for the Ghost of Tom Joad in John Steinbeck's THE GRAPES OF WRATH
Duration:01:21:18
Episode 14: Ride into the sun--Cormac McCarthy's BLOOD MERIDIAN
Duration:01:40:30
Homing in on the Prairie with Willa Cather's My Ántonia
Duration:01:04:44
Episode 12: Hitting the Road with LOLITA
Duration:01:28:20
The Everyday Ecstasy of Marilynne Robinsone's GILEAD
Duration:01:24:57
Episode 10: Finding the Lost Generation in Hemingway's THE SUN ALSO RISES
Duration:01:31:50
Episode 9: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Duration:01:22:01
Episode 8: Beloved and Ghosts of the Past, the Present, and Possibly the Future
Duration:01:13:46