Overview of the influence of the Book of Job on American literary culture. Texts and authors mentioned in passing include King James Bible, Robert Alter's translation of Job, Harold Bloom, Carl Jung, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Edward P. Jones's The Known World, poet Emily Dickinson, Pulp Fiction, Hamlet, Casablanca

AmLit Readers: American Literature, Culture, and History Podcast

Book of Job (Old Testament) and American Literature

Discussion of Robert Frost, his poems, and place within literary modernism Check out YouTube video here: LINK   Get in touch @profomalley

Robert Frost Poetry

Discussion of Moby-Dick Chapters 90-end. Check out YouTube video here: LINK   Get in touch @profomalley

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, Day 6

Overview of Moby-Dick Chapters 90-end. Comparing Ishmael and Ahab with a look at Chapter 47, The Mat-Maker, the figure of Pip as inspired by King Lear’s Fool and Ahab as a tragic figure   Check out YouTube video here: LINK   Get in touch @profomalley

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, Day 5

Overview of Chapters 46-90 with an emphasis on Chapter 54, The Town-Ho Story, that often stalls readers progression through Melville's Moby-Dick with a quick preview of the shortest Chapter 122, Midnight Aloft -- Thunder and Lightning --- Check out youtube video here: LINK Get in touch @profomalley

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, Day 4

Get started reading Moby-Dick chapters Chapter 1-45 with an emphasis on Chapter 36 The Quarter-Deck. Check out the youtube video of the lecture: LINK Get in touch @profomalley  

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, Day 3

Get started reading Moby-Dick chapters 1-45. Check out the youtube video of the lecture: LINK Get in touch @profomalley

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, Day 2

Introduction to the first pages and chapters of Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick. Check out the youtube video of the lecture: LINK Get in touch @profomalley

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, Day 1

Choice Book, Day 1

Willa Cather, My Antonia, Last Day

Willa Cather, My Antonia Day 1

Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Last Day

Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Day 1

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter Day 2 (parts i and ii)

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter Day 1

Discussion of American literature, culture, and history; connects readers to books; and offers analysis of famous first lines from books.

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