Arnold Weinstein

Lecture 01 - Introduction To Classics Of American Literature

Lecture 10 - Edgar Allan Poe

Lecture 02 - Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography; The First American Story

Lecture 11 - Poe; Ghost Writer

Lecture 12 - Poe's Legacy; The Self As Haunted Palace

Aria: "New York Lights" (aka "I love the beauty of the view at home")

Lecture 55 - F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby; American Romance

Lecture 03 - Washington Irving; The First American Storyteller

Lecture 04 - Ralph Waldo Emerson Yesterday; America's Coming Of Age

Lecture 07 - Henry David Thoreau; Countercultural Hero

01. Why Literature—Civilization and Its Discontents

Lecture 05 - Emerson Today; Architect Of American Values

Lecture 18 - Herman Melville And The Making Of Moby-Dick

Lecture 13 - Nathaniel Hawthorne And The American Past

Lecture 63 - William Faulkner's The Sound And The Fury; The Idiot's Tale

Lecture 06 - Emerson Tomorrow; Deconstructing Culture And Self

Lecture 08 - Thoreau; Stylist And Humorist Extraordinaire

Lecture 54 - T.S. Eliot; The Waste Land And Beyond

Lecture 29 - Uncle Tom's Cabin; The Unread Classic

Lecture 56 - The Great Gatsby; A Story Of Lost Illusions

Lecture 24 - Walt Whitman; The American Bard Appears

Lecture 32 - Emily Dickinson; In And Out Of Nature

Lecture 42 - Henry James And The Novel Of Perception

Lecture 16 - The Scarlet Letter; Political Tract Or Psychological Study

Lecture 14 - The Scarlet Letter; Puritan Romance

Lecture 19 - The Biggest Fish Story Of Them All

Lecture 65 - The Sound And The Fury; Signifying Nothing

Lecture 09 - Walden; Yesterday, Today, And Tomorrow

02. Oedipus the King and the Nature of Greek Tragedy

Lecture 57 - Fitzgerald's Triumph; Writing The American Dream

Lecture 53 - T.S. Eliot; Unloved Modern Classic

Lecture 15 - Hawthorne's A; Interpretation And Semiosis

Lecture 58 - Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises; Novel Of The Lost Generation

Lecture 33 - Dickinson's Poetry; Language And Consciousness

Lecture 78 - A Streetcar Named Desire; The Death Of Romance

Lecture 44 - Turning The Screw Of Interpretation

Lecture 39 - Huckleberry Finn; A Child's Voice, A Child's Vision

Lecture 20 - Ahab And The White Whale

Lecture 59 - The Sun Also Rises; Spiritual Quest

Lecture 27 - Whitman; Poet Of Death

Lecture 50 - Robert Frost And The Spirit Of New England

Lecture 64 - The Sound And The Fury; Failed Rites Of Passage

Lecture 81 - Toni Morrison's Beloved; Dismembering And Remembering

Lecture 38 - Huckleberry Finn; The Banned Classic

Lecture 40 - Huckleberry Finn, American Orphan

Lecture 49 - The Yellow Wallpaper; Descent Into Hell Or Free At Last

Lecture 22 - Melville's Benito Cereno; American (Mis)adventure At Sea

Lecture 17 - Hawthorne Our Contemporary

Lecture 30 - Stowe's Representation Of Slavery

01. The City as Container, the Artist as Mapmaker