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Dante in Translation
with Giuseppe Mazzotta YouTube - iTunes Video – iTunes Audio - Download
Spenser and Milton
with William Flesch
1) Introduction: Allegory in Spenser and in Milton: Audio
2) Spenser: Book I of the Faerie Queene and the Spenserian stanza: Audio
3) Allegory and character in Spenser: Audio
4) More on allegory and character, inner and outer, with the examples of Orgoglio and of Despayre in Book I: Audio
5) Spenser: Book II: Spenser and certainty. Guyon’s priggishness: Audio
6) Book II: Temperance and self-restraint. The pleasures of self-restraint. Mirth and Mammon: Audio
7) Book II: The Bower of Blisse and the Lovely Lay sung there: Audio
8) Book III: Why do Guyon and Britomart (Temperance and Chastity) fight?: Audio
9) Book III: Britomart and allegory: Audio
10) Book III: Allegory and human individuality: Audio
11) Book III: Amoret, Belphoebe and what the House of Busirane is for:Audio
12) What it’s like to live in the Land of Faery; the Garden of Adonis: Audio
13) Matter and Form in the Garden of Adonis: Audio
14) Book IV: Love and Friendship: Audio
15) Book IV: The Friend as Second Self: Audio
16) Book IV: Scudamor at the Temple of Venus: Audio
17) Book V: Varieties of Justice: Audio
18) Books V and VI: The relation of Justice to Courtesy: Audio
19) Variety and Uniformity in Books V and VI: Audio
20) Book VI as pastoral: Audio
21) Last, best class on the Faerie Queene: Scopophilia and narrative: Audio
22) Milton: Lycidas: Audio
23) Contrasts and Debates in Milton: Audio
24) Lycidas and Comus: Audio
25) Comus, rape, and freedom: Audio
26) Paradise Lost and freedom: Audio
27) Paradise Lost: The mind is its own place. The Lady from Comus and Satan: Audio
28) Paradise Lost as anti-allegorical poem. Invocation to Book 3: Audio
29) Paradise Lost: Who gets to judge God’s ways?: Audio
30) Paradise Lost: Warnings and failures to warn: Audio
31) Paradise Lost: Prayer and Invocation: Audio
32) Dreams, allegories, and other minds in Milton: Audio
33) Moral typologies in Paradise Lost: Audio
34) How humans think things through in Milton: Audio
35) Temptation in Paradise Lost, Areopagitica and Paradise Regained:Audio
36) Last class: Samson and his blindness. Closet drama: Audio
Literature and Form
with Catherine Brown iTunes Video – iTunes Audio – Institute Web
Literature in English: Late-17th to Mid-19th Century
with Charles Altieri
Shakespeare’s Principal Plays
with Ralph Williams iTunes Audio – Institute Web
Survey of Shakespeare’s Plays
with William Flesch
1. Introduction on Shakespeare’s thinking about time, especially in Sonnet 73, and then Richard II: Audio
2. Richard II, part 2: Audio
3. Richard II, part 3: Audio
4. Richard II, concluded; Midsummer Night’s Dream: Audio
5. Midsummer Night’s Dream concluded: Audio
6. Merchant of Venice: Audio
7. Hamlet, part 1: The idea of revenge: Audio
8. Hamlet, part 2: Introspection vs. drama: Audio
9. Hamlet, concluded: The circumstances of revenge and moral luck: Audio
10. King Lear, part 1: Audio
11. King Lear, part 2: Audio
12. King Lear, concluded: Audio
13. Macbeth, part 1: Audio
14. Macbeth, concluded: Audio
15. Antony and Cleopatra, part 1: Audio
16. Antony and Cleopatra, part 2: Audio
17. Antony and Cleopatra, part 3: Antony: Audio
18. Antony and Cleopatra, concluded: Audio
19: The Winter’s Tale, part 1: Things Dying: Audio
20. The Winter’s Tale, and the course, concluded: Things New Born Audio
American Literature I: Beginnings to Civil War
with Cyrus Patell YouTube – iTunes Video – Institute Web
Existentialism in Literature & Film
with Hubert Dreyfus iTunes – Institute Web
Cervantes’ Don Quixote
with Roberto González Echevarría YouTube – iTunes Video – iTunes Audio – Institute Web
Contemporary Literature
with Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan YouTube – Institute Web
Expansive Poetics
with Allen Ginsberg
http://archive.org/details/Allen_Ginsberg_Class_part_1_June_1981_81P113
http://archive.org/details/Allen_Ginsberg_Class_2_Expansive_Poetics_July_1981_81P121
http://archive.org/details/Allen_Ginsberg_Class_3_Expansive_Poetics_July_1981_81P122
http://archive.org/details/Allen_Ginsberg_Class_4_Expansive_Poetics_July_1981_81P123
http://archive.org/details/Allen_Ginsberg_Class_5_Expansive_Poetics_July_1981_81P124
http://archive.org/details/Allen_Ginsberg_Class_6_Expansive_Poetics_July_1981_81P125
http://archive.org/details/Allen_Ginsberg_Class_8_Expansive_Poetics_July_1981_81P127
http://archive.org/details/Allen_Ginsberg_Class_11_Expansive_Poetics_July_1981_81P130
Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner
with Wai Chee Dimock YouTube – iTunes – Institute Web
Restoration and 18th Century Poetry: From Dryden to Wordsworth
with William Flesch
1) Introduction: Poetic form and the resourcefulness it requires: Audio
2) Dryden on Oldham and Oldham on Sodom. Dryden’s scatology: Audio
3) Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel. Antithetical style and heroic couplet:Audio
4) Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel. Dryden’s skepticism about perfectibility: Audio
5) Dryden: Religio Laici and poets’ claims to political and philosophical expertise: Audio
6) Dryden: Conclusion of discussion of both Absalom and Achitophel and Religio Laici: Audio
7) Dryden’s Subtlety: Audio
8) Dryden’s conclusions: his late masques and essays; his prose and his digressiveness: Audio
9) Rochester vs. Dryden; Rochester’s skill and range: Audio
10) Rochester. Definitely NSFW, but with considerable psychological acuity: Audio
11) Swift. Also NSFW. Swift’s scatology: Audio
12) Swift on himself and on Stella and on his contemporaries: Audio
13) Pope. Introduction and Essay on Criticism: Audio
14) Pope. Essay on Criticism, Eloisa to Abelard, Rape of the Lock: Audio
15) Pope and how poetry becomes topical. Arbuthnot, Rape of the Lock:Audio
16) Pope’s Satires and To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady: Audio
17) Last Class on Pope: Dunciad: Audio
18) Doctor Johnson as poet. His Proto-Romanticism: Audio
19) Thomson and Collins as Proto-Romantics: Audio
20) Young, Gray, and the advent of Romanticism: Audio
21) Christopher Smart: Prayer and Praise: Audio
22) Goldsmith and Cowper: Audio
23) Barbauld and Baillie: Audio
24) Burns, Blake, and perspectives on innocence: Audio
25) Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798: Audio
26) Last class, return to Pope’s Essay on Man, and retrospective on course:Audio
The American Novel Since 1945
with Amy Hungerford YouTube – iTunes Audio –iTunes Video – Institute Web
British and American Poetry: 1900 to the Present
with Charles Altieri
Introduction to Pre-Modern Japanese Literature and Culture
with John Wallace
Introduction to Theory of Literature
with Paul H. Fry YouTube – iTunes Audio –iTunes Video – Institute Web
Existentialism in Literature & Film
with Hubert Dreyfus iTunes – Institute Web
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre
with Oxford Team iTunes – Institute Web
The Western Canon: From Homer to Milton
with William Flesch
1. Introductory lecture on the legendary and the real Homer as treated by Dante and Milton: Audio
2. Homeric simile in The Iliad: Audio
3. Iliad, mainly Book 6: Audio
4. Iliad: Hektor frightens Astyanax; Achilleus plays the lyre: Audio
5. Iliad: Achilleus, Patroklos, Hektor, Priam, and the laws of hospitality:Audio
6. The Odyssey: Funeral games and gift-giving (a bit truncated due to glitch): Audio
7. Odyssey: Gifr-giving and hospitality: Audio
8. Odyssey: The Use of oral formulae: Audio
9. Odyssey: Why Odysseus is “no man”: Audio
10. Odyssey: Conclusion, including reunion and two greatest similes in the poem: Audio
11. Plato, Socrates, Zeno, Forms: Audio
12. Plato: The Cave and the argument against poetry: Audio
13. Aristophanes’s Clouds: his Socrates vs. Plato’s: Audio
14. Ovid: and his influence on Milton: Audio
15. Ovid and Virgil and their relation to Homer: Audio
16. Virgil’s sublimity: Audio
17. Virgil’s Homeric recapitulations. Doctor Johnson’s strictures: Audio
18. Dante: Introduction. Terza Rima. Dante’s Virgil. Topography of Hell:Audio
19. Dante: Inferno. Love, justice, desire: Audio
20. Dante: Inferno and Purgatorio: topographic ordering of sins in both, from least bad to worst: Audio
21. Dante: Purgatorio. Contrapasso and allopathic punishment in Purgatory vs. homeopathic punishment in hell: Audio
22. Dante: Purgatorio and Paradiso: Love and gravity; the idea of theodicy:Audio
23: Dante: Paradiso, the Universe, and everything: Audio
24. Milton: Paradiso and Paradise Lost: Audio
25. Milton: Paradise Lost and its antecedents in our reading: Audio
26. Milton: Freedom of conscience and guilt in Paradise Lost: Audio
27. Milton: Paradise Lost and conclusion of the course: parallels between all worlds; angelic sex; love and Adam’s self-sacrifice for Eve and hers for him: Audio