Contemporary American Literature: An Open Yale Course

in Literature, Yale | November 23rd, 2009 1 Comment

The talk above is the first of 26 lectures making up a free Yale course called “The American Novel Since 1945.” Taught by Amy Hungerford, the course introduces you to the novels of America’s finest post-war writers -- Nabokov (émigré), Salinger, Kerouac, and Pynchon, and also Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy and Jonathan Safran Foer. You can watch all lectures via YouTube here, or access them in audio and video from iTunes. Yale also offers the files as mp3s/movs here. For more full-fledged courses from other top universities (including many others from Yale), visit our collection of Free Online Courses whenever you want, wherever you want.


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  1. Ed Desautels says . . . | November 25, 2009 / 4:32 am

    Kerouac but _not_ Burroughs? Hmmm.

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