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John Pistelli
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Introduction to Literature Q & A
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From Spring 2020, these are the last of my online lectures from when I was an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota. Most of this Introduction to Literature class, focused on fiction, drama, and poetry, had been dicussion-focused and held in person, but the final third was given in the form of online lectures during the pandemic. This is the final lecture of all, a q&a where I answer...
Introduction to Literature: Poetry 3. William Butler Yeats, John Keats
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From Spring 2020, these are the last of my online lectures from when I was an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota. The first 2/3 of this Introduction to Literature class, focused on fiction and drama, had been in person; the final third, on poetry, were online lectures during the pandemic. This one discusses W. B. Yeats's "The Second Coming" and John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn."...
Introduction to Literature: Poetry 2. Walcott, Heaney, Hopkins, Dickinson, Stevens
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From Spring 2020, these are the last of my online lectures from when I was an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota. The first 2/3 of this Introduction to Literature class, focused on fiction and drama, had been in person; the final third, on poetry, were online lectures during the pandemic. This one discusses Derek Walcott's "A Far Cry from Africa," Seamus Heaney's "Digging," Gerard...
Introduction to Literature: Poetry 1. Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath
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From Spring 2020, these are the last of my online lectures from when I was an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota. The first 2/3 of this Introduction to Literature class, focused on fiction and drama, had been in person; the final third, on poetry, were online lectures during the pandemic. This one discusses Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro," T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of ...
"Iconoclasm" - Audio Short Story
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The audio version of my original short story, "Iconoclasm," published in The Harpoon Review in 2015: www.harpoonreview.com/john-pistelli johnpistelli.com johnppistelli@gmail.com
"Sweet Angry God" - Audio Short Story
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The audio version of my original short story, "Sweet Angry God," published in Writing Raw in 2015 and reposted here: medium.com/@johnpistelli/sweet-angry-god-cace96c3a765 johnpistelli.com johnppistelli@gmail.com
Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun - An Audio Book Review
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An audio version of the essay on Klara and the Sun here: johnpistelli.com/2021/03/12/kazuo-ishiguro-klara-and-the-sun/ johnpistelli.com johnpistelli@gmail.com
William James, Pragmatism - Audio Book Review
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An audio version of the essay on James's Pragmatism here: johnpistelli.com/2022/01/25/william-james-pragmatism-a-new-name-for-some-old-ways-of-thinking/ johnpistelli.com johnpistelli@gmail.com
Norman Mailer, The Armies of the Night - Audio Book Review
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An audio version of the essay on The Armies of the Night here: johnpistelli.com/2022/01/13/norman-mailer-the-armies-of-the-night/ johnpistelli.com johnpistelli@gmail.com
William Blake, Blake's Poetry and Designs - Audio Book Review
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An audio version of the essay on Blake's Poetry and Designs here: johnpistelli.com/2022/01/03/william-blake-blakes-poetry-and-designs/ johnpistelli.com johnpistelli@gmail.com
A Lecture on Lydia Davis's stories and Charles Yu's "Systems"
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Lecture #40, Contemporary American Literature, Spring 2021 Syllabus: johnpistelli.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/engl1201wspring2021ws.pdf
A Lecture on Natasha Trethewey's "Native Guard" and Jennifer Egan's "Black Box"
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Lecture #39, Contemporary American Literature, Spring 2021 Syllabus: johnpistelli.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/engl1201wspring2021ws.pdf
A Lecture on Junot Díaz's "Drown" and Jhumpa Lahiri's "Sexy"
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Lecture #38, Contemporary American Literature, Spring 2021 Syllabus: johnpistelli.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/engl1201wspring2021ws.pdf
A Lecture on George Saunders's "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline"
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Lecture #37, Contemporary American Literature, Spring 2021 Syllabus: johnpistelli.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/engl1201wspring2021ws.pdf
A Lecture on David Foster Wallace's "Consider the Lobster"
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A Lecture on David Foster Wallace's "Consider the Lobster"
A Lecture on Maxine Hong Kingston's "No Name Woman"
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A Lecture on Maxine Hong Kingston's "No Name Woman"
A Lecture on Louise Glück's "The Drowned Children" and "October"
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A Lecture on Louise Glück's "The Drowned Children" and "October"
A Lecture on Frank Bidart's "Ellen West"
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A Lecture on Frank Bidart's "Ellen West"
A Lecture on Li-Young Lee's "Persimmons"
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A Lecture on Li-Young Lee's "Persimmons"
A Lecture on Don DeLillo's White Noise, "The Airborne Toxic Event"
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A Lecture on Don DeLillo's White Noise, "The Airborne Toxic Event"
A Lecture on John Updike's "Separating"
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A Lecture on John Updike's "Separating"
A Lecture on Toni Morrison's "Recitatif"
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A Lecture on Toni Morrison's "Recitatif"
A Lecture on Louise Erdrich's "Fleur"
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A Lecture on Louise Erdrich's "Fleur"
A Lecture on Raymond Carver's "Cathedral"
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A Lecture on Raymond Carver's "Cathedral"
A Lecture on August Wilson's Fences
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A Lecture on August Wilson's Fences
A Lecture on Leslie Marmon Silko's "Lullaby" and Amy Tan's "Two Kinds"
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A Lecture on Leslie Marmon Silko's "Lullaby" and Amy Tan's "Two Kinds"
A Lecture on Gloria Anzaldúa's “La concienca de la mestiza / Towards a New Consciousness”
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A Lecture on Gloria Anzaldúa's “La concienca de la mestiza / Towards a New Consciousness”
A Lecture on Ishmael Reed's "Neo-HooDoo Manifesto"
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A Lecture on Ishmael Reed's "Neo-HooDoo Manifesto"
Very clear anf helpful. Thank you.
The book might take its title from the essay but the essay takes its title from a Yeats poem, The Second Coming
Every lecturer I've listened to talk about 'Howl' has always sounded like they're writing poetry themselves. Beautiful lecture, Mr Pistelli!
You sound like Terrence McKenna
I am very excited to start reading Pynchon soon.
A clear, concise, and always interesting study of Ginsburg’s “Howl.” I am extremely grateful to Mr. Pistelli for making this available.
Great video
2000th subscriber to the channel. Yeah!
You're doing God's work mate, wonderful elucidation and your website slaps also.
10:00 i'm taking an exam next week and this is extreamly useful, thanks
The idea that Ginsberg and the Beats were "culturally appropriative and parasitic upon a Black culture that it doesn't recognize as an equal" does not seem correct. Those guys practically worshipped Black culture, including but by no means limited to the jazz players of the day. Your alleged evidence here, that the "best minds" dragging themselves through "negro streets" looking for drugs is a sign that Ginsberg looked down on Black culture, is not adequate to establish your claim. It is actually the dominant White American culture that Ginsberg hammers away at in his work. The Beats' championing of Black culture fit well with Ginsberg's leftist political roots that went back to his childhood. Communist Party propaganda in America had been attacking racism since the early 1920s.
Appreciate this! Just finished Slouching Towards Bethlehem and this provides some great context
Hello from Ukraine! Thank you for the lecture. I've just finished Pynchon collected short stories , we have the Ukrainian edition of them. Your lecture was really useful but that marriage you're have mentioned wasn't between gods, it was between nymph Thethis and a man Peleus - father of Achilles.
Not so difficult. If he mentions something you've never heard of, look it up. That's what the Internet is for.
tell that to the people who read gravity's rainbow on release date buddy
I loved this
I enjoyed this story, got drawn here after listening to your lecture on Gluck. Are you referring to the White Paintings by Rauschenberg? What I particularly liked was that you showed how the captain was moved by art (especially the one which might be contested if it can be called art); the ending is brutal though. Excellent, there are multiple layers to the story!
Hi, sorry for my late reply. I was thinking about Malevich...but Rauschenberg works too. Thanks so much!
Sir, I just wanted to express that I think your lectures are amazing. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and knowledge with the world
She described the left accurately. That’s why she’s marginalized in Norton. It’s a pretty straightforward unpersoning for thoughtcrime. Also, admiring John Wayne probably didn’t help.
The part with the girl in blackface rly reminds me of pro palestine protests nowadays. White radicals talking over ppl who actually hve experience with bigotry, verses those who cosplay it.
can i turn in my paper late?
She was "skeptical" of The Movement? She was withering.
That was a great little story. Congratulations on the publication in Harpoon Review. I just found your channel and I'm looking forward to watching your other videos. Cheers.
Thank you!
This is why Pynchon is my favourite writer, in all his writings, humanity comes first
First to death. Pynchon’s writing is distinctly posthumanist in its outlook and is always widening our gaze beyond the human towards the greater forces of nature such as gravity in Gravity’s Rainbow. Sure, they’re stories about humans, but only insofar as they act as a surrogate by which to birth a distinctly posthuman child.
Dude. that story sounds AMAZING 😮🐈
I would say it had to do with the fact that both of those generations were more conservative and thus more realistic. I think there realistic look at the world helps make their writing much more meaningful.
I love the insight on how the smaller silent generation and Gen X produced the greatest writers.
I've listened to this multiple times. This is fantastic and never gets old. You provide valuable insight.
such a honest description! loved the lecture!
yr lesson on abstract expression and the NY school is tragique
Burroughs is more talented than Ginsberg or Kerouac?!?!?!?
I think he's more interesting at least, if not more talented
Ginsberg has higher highs but Burrows has more breath.
Nice!!!
Very informative and interesting. Thank you!💛
tomato lyricism & chicken pops! because Zauberberg was my intro to Deutsch literature (with the unparalleled voice of Gert Westphal) very proud to catch the woman in the courtyard reference tout les deux & costume designer (costumes are for me with cinematography the only aspect of cinema that i am able to focus on)
“its” changed automatically without my supervision
“world of representation” “labyrinth of books” this contrast overlap divergence difference split is one that fascinates perplexes me if anyone could pull on these threads to weave a book fictional or not it would certainly be JP coming here from your review esp of Libra coming soon from loa a novel I was dreading to read (the events occurring in my 4th year of life, it’s conspiratorial elements seemingly overdone in media yet not without their factual impact on a nation) due to near absence of interest your essay is the first to light a fire which will at least spur an initial reading, the benefits of which will only become existent and fruitful in my remaining conscious lifetime thereafter. good luck in the culture wars keep digging a deeper trench and hanging in there until obliteration or the calvary arrives with reinforcements
Thank you, glad you liked the story and I hope you enjoy Libra!
Let us not forget his influence on Radiohead! W.A.S.T.E. not W.A.N.T. not.
Very well put together, very informative. Thank you.
Excellent analysis.
I was trying to find video where I canthank you for the beautiful analysis of Man-Moth, it was perfectly analized and transferred as a lecture, you can never imagine how much it helped my for my mid-term exam! Thank you so much!!
I'm glad it was helpful-you're welcome!
i have to finish a research about an American poet these few days , and i need your help.
How can i text you , please..
Thanks for posting this!
I'm impressed by Pynchon's deep humanistic stance. Against the Day, which is my favorite, I rank among Dostojewski's Idiot and Tolstoi's War and Peace.
As you began your lecture I was wondering if Pynchon is some kind of closet/crypto Discordian(a la Principia Discordia) and then I looked up from my work and saw the gGolden Apple there in your slide and I was like maybe that answers my question. Maybe knot. Idk. Regardless, I noted the synchronicity and considered they're not entirely disjunct in concept. I will say I can easily interpret the juxtaposition of the two apartments' dynamics as an apt allegory for the Sacred Chao and its accompanying principles of rising Hodge vs rising Podge.
@@Barklord But! "JW: How do you regard Pynchon as important? Obviously he's a conspiracy theorist... RAW: We have a lot in common. It's one of those things, like Darwin and Wallace, when the time is right a couple of people are going to be saying pretty much the same thing. There are enough differences between Pynchon and me that I think I'm a little more than just an echo of Pynchon. At least I like to believe that. Shea and I were finished with Illuminatus! when we read Gravity's Rainbow and then on the rewrite we deliberately threw in a couple of references to it, but we had worked out the structure on our own, mostly on the basis of the nut mail that Playboy gets." Meanwhile, have you listened to the V. audiobook (the old one)? The voice sounds suspiciously similar to RAW's, and I'm waiting for the day I'll find evidence it's a young RAW reading it.
You may have read Valis after reading the comic by Robert Crumb, which is the same way I was lead to read it after picking up a random Crumb anthology in a comic store. I think it's one of his best books, sort of brutal self reflection with a desperate grasp for meaning. His last book, Timothy Archer, which Ursula LeGuinn praised, does a great job of taking these themes out of the sort of self-centered obsession of Valis and has the best characterization Dick ever made with its protagonist, and explores his regular themes in a realist setting, I found it just beautiful.
Didion passed. Do u have more video about her? Her legacy?
Not in video format, but if you search her name at johnpistelli.com, you'll find several essays about her other works.
@@johnpistelli9092 I mean your work on her work
@@johnpistelli9092 oh wow. Pardon me. Just saw what you meant. The next day after she died, you wouldn't believe this: someone gifted me the novel: The Last Thing He Wanted!
Thank you!
It's been a while since I last read Entropy. Was Callisto blind? I seem to remember something about that...(if that was mentioned in some of the excerpts from the text you displayed on screen, I apologize for asking a redundant question.)
You forgot his possible appearance on "The John Lourequet Show."
Remember also the meatball from the song "On Top of Spaghetti." It also rolls on the floor but while the Golden Apple rolls in, the meatball rolls out. Awesome lecture! As a huge fan, I appreciate everything you said about Pynchon. Thank you!
Can tell more about who you are and what you do? Enjoying. Thanks