Sontag was accused of plagiarism by Ellen Lee, who discovered at least twelve passages in the 387-page book that were similar to passages in four other books about Modjeska, including My Mortal Enemy, a novel by Willa Cather. (Cather wrote: "When Oswald asked her to propose a toast, she put out her long arm, lifted her glass, and looking into the blur of the candlelight with a grave face, said: 'To my coun-n-try!'" Sontag wrote, "When asked to propose a toast, she put out her long arm, lifted her glass, and looking into the blur of the candlelight, crooned, 'To my new country!'" "Country," muttered Miss Collingridge. "Not 'coun-n-try.'") The quotations were presented without credit or attribution. Sontag said about using the passages, "All of us who deal with real characters in history transcribe and adopt original sources in the original domain. I've used these sources and I've completely transformed them. I have these books. I've looked at these books. There's a larger argument to be made that all of literature is a series of references and allusions."
In America is a 2003 Irish-American-British drama film directed by Jim Sheridan. The semi-autobiographical screenplay by Sheridan and his daughters Naomi and Kirsten focuses on an immigrant Irish family's struggle to start a new life in New York City, as seen through the eyes of the elder daughter.
In 1982, Johnny and Sarah Sullivan and their daughters Christy and Ariel enter the United States on a tourist visa via Canada, where Johnny was working as an actor. The family settles in New York City, in a rundown Hell's Kitchentenement occupied by drug addicts, transvestites, and a reclusive Nigerian artist/photographer named Mateo Kuamey. Hanging over the family is the death of their five-year-old son Frankie, who died from a brain tumor. The devout Roman Catholic Johnny questions God and has lost any ability to feel true emotions, which has affected his relationship with his family. Christy believes she has been granted three wishes by her dead brother, which she only uses at times of near-dire consequences for the family as they try to survive in New York.
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The term "Great American Novel" has been thrown around a great deal. But what does it mean? And does any book embody the elusive ideal?
Links 💻
My blog post on this topic: https://supposedlyfun.com/2022/06/30/what-is-the-great-american-novel/
Wikipedia’s article about the Great American Novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Novel
Further Viewing 🎥
My review of Lonesome Dove: https://youtu.be/bf5tx26fKNs
Is Gone With the Wind racist? https://youtu.be/7kdP568OC_Q
My Pulitzer Prize Takeaways from 2022: https://youtu.be/RhB_yJxaMck
My husband made a cookbook! Check it out here:
https://www.blurb.com/b/10189765-my-mack-and-cheese-cookbook-gifts-from-the-kitche
But wait, there's more!
Email: supposedlyfungreg-at-gmail.com
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published: 07 Jul 2022
Watch Jeffrey Wright Grapple With Stereotypes in ‘American Fiction’ | Anatomy of a Scene
A conventional Black novel comes to life, with both comedic and dramatic results, in this scene from “American Fiction.”
The film, written and directed by Cord Jefferson, who adapted Percival Everett’s 2001 novel, “Erasure,” follows the writer Thelonious Ellison (Jeffrey Wright), who goes by Monk, through his frustrations with the kinds of stories he thinks Black writers are allowed to tell.
After one of his more academic books has poor sales, a frustrated Monk decides to pen a more stereotypically Black story under a pseudonym. That book’s title is “My Pafology.” In this scene, as Monk begins to write, his clichéd creations come alive before him: Willy the Wonker and Van Go, played by Keith David and Okieriete Onaodowan.
Narrating the scene, Jefferson said that this sequence doesn’t ap...
published: 15 Dec 2023
Learn English Through Novel Story Level 4 - Little Women - English Listening Practice For Beginners
Learn English Through Novel Story Level 4 -- Little Women -- Easy English Listening Practice For Beginners
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☞ Reading in English is one of the most effective ways to improve language skills. These stories help to extend vocabulary in “the most natural way.” Research has shown that students who read in English improve in every area of language learning at a faster rate than students who don't read. Not only reading skills but aslo listening skills are improved thanks to the professional native voices.
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What Is the Great American Novel?
Let me know - especially the classics buffs out there.
The books I mention in the video, with links to buy them on Amazon (yep I'm an affiliate) and to my review/analysis, if I've filmed one:
Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
AM: http://amzn.to/2syYcFy
Reader's Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2InnwVIw4w&t=13s
DeLillo - Underworld
AM: http://amzn.to/2uCVUS6
My Top 5 DeLillo Books, though that's a lo-fi video even by my standards. (It's not modesty, the light's truly shit).: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYqTaOoKzz4
Pynchon - Against the Day
AM: http://amzn.to/2tBuAHi
My Top 5 Pynchon Books: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsQy8o5wAMM
Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
AM: http://amzn.to/2sEGFqk
Reader's Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua7VRKDtcds
Pynchon - Mason ...
published: 03 Jul 2017
The Great American Novel: how and why?
Dr Kasia Boddy (UCL English Language & Literature)
Parodied almost as soon as it was announced, and generally regarded as a topic beneath the remit of serious literary criticism, the Great American Novel enterprise has proved more durable and more various than almost any other in American literary culture. It remains the bench-mark for literary ambition, prestige, and sales. This lecture, marking World Book Day, considera some of the forms the Great American Novel has taken in its 150-year history and ask what social, political, moral, commercial and aesthetic needs it so persistently promises to serve.
published: 02 Mar 2012
Beans on Toast - The Great American Novel
Taken from the album “Rolling up The Hill”
Out Now on Xtra Mile Recordings.
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/BoT-Rolling_iTunes
XMR: http://smarturl.it/BoT-Rolling_XMR
Video by Beans on Toast
Thanks to the Americans for dancing.
www.beansontoastmusic.com
published: 01 Oct 2015
Brits try Best Fried Chicken in America!
Get your hands on the greatest novel of the year SPACE CARROTS!: A Novel by best selling author Josh Carrott here! - https://amzn.to/3tcfvN8
As the year nears its end, we've got one last video in the States for 2023 and it's at none other than the restaurant serving up (arguably) the BEST Fried Chicken in all of America - Willie Mae's!
Huge thanks to Willie Mae's for being so accommodating and letting us film!
https://williemaesrestaurant.com/
Check out our latest JOLLY merch at http://getjolly.store
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published: 18 Dec 2023
The Great American Novel (The Simpsons)
From season 5 episode 19: Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song
published: 27 Oct 2015
Novel American - Josh recording intro.mp4
Josh recording intro to one of the new songs
published: 20 Mar 2011
General Education & Teaching Tips : How to Write the Great American Novel
Writing the great American novel begins with researching past great American novels, and deciding what has not yet been said about the country's biggest failures and best achievements. Construct a novel that relates universally to all Americans with advice from an educator in this free video on general education.
Expert: Laura Turner
Bio: Laura Turner received her B.A. in English from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., graduating magna cum laude with honors. Her plays have been seen and heard from Alaska to Tennessee.
Filmmaker: Todd Green
Expand for more information 👇
The term "Great American Novel" has been thrown around a great deal. But what does it mean? And does any book embody the elusive ...
Expand for more information 👇
The term "Great American Novel" has been thrown around a great deal. But what does it mean? And does any book embody the elusive ideal?
Links 💻
My blog post on this topic: https://supposedlyfun.com/2022/06/30/what-is-the-great-american-novel/
Wikipedia’s article about the Great American Novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Novel
Further Viewing 🎥
My review of Lonesome Dove: https://youtu.be/bf5tx26fKNs
Is Gone With the Wind racist? https://youtu.be/7kdP568OC_Q
My Pulitzer Prize Takeaways from 2022: https://youtu.be/RhB_yJxaMck
My husband made a cookbook! Check it out here:
https://www.blurb.com/b/10189765-my-mack-and-cheese-cookbook-gifts-from-the-kitche
But wait, there's more!
Email: supposedlyfungreg-at-gmail.com
Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/supposedlyfun
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/SupposedlyFun
Website: https://supposedlyfun.com/
Expand for more information 👇
The term "Great American Novel" has been thrown around a great deal. But what does it mean? And does any book embody the elusive ideal?
Links 💻
My blog post on this topic: https://supposedlyfun.com/2022/06/30/what-is-the-great-american-novel/
Wikipedia’s article about the Great American Novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Novel
Further Viewing 🎥
My review of Lonesome Dove: https://youtu.be/bf5tx26fKNs
Is Gone With the Wind racist? https://youtu.be/7kdP568OC_Q
My Pulitzer Prize Takeaways from 2022: https://youtu.be/RhB_yJxaMck
My husband made a cookbook! Check it out here:
https://www.blurb.com/b/10189765-my-mack-and-cheese-cookbook-gifts-from-the-kitche
But wait, there's more!
Email: supposedlyfungreg-at-gmail.com
Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/supposedlyfun
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/SupposedlyFun
Website: https://supposedlyfun.com/
A conventional Black novel comes to life, with both comedic and dramatic results, in this scene from “American Fiction.”
The film, written and directed by Cord...
A conventional Black novel comes to life, with both comedic and dramatic results, in this scene from “American Fiction.”
The film, written and directed by Cord Jefferson, who adapted Percival Everett’s 2001 novel, “Erasure,” follows the writer Thelonious Ellison (Jeffrey Wright), who goes by Monk, through his frustrations with the kinds of stories he thinks Black writers are allowed to tell.
After one of his more academic books has poor sales, a frustrated Monk decides to pen a more stereotypically Black story under a pseudonym. That book’s title is “My Pafology.” In this scene, as Monk begins to write, his clichéd creations come alive before him: Willy the Wonker and Van Go, played by Keith David and Okieriete Onaodowan.
Narrating the scene, Jefferson said that this sequence doesn’t appear in the novel; rather, the book recreates the entirety of “My Pafology” within its pages. To make Monk’s writing cinematic, Jefferson chose to stage it with Monk at the desk writing, his characters acting out his dialogue around him.
While humor is the intention of the scene, Jefferson said, “Ok and Keith David are such great actors that you have this inclination to take them seriously.” He said that nuance, and the desire to not play the scene too broadly, only makes the scene better.
Read the review here: nyti.ms/3TrJk6V
Subscribe: http://bit.ly/U8Ys7n
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A conventional Black novel comes to life, with both comedic and dramatic results, in this scene from “American Fiction.”
The film, written and directed by Cord Jefferson, who adapted Percival Everett’s 2001 novel, “Erasure,” follows the writer Thelonious Ellison (Jeffrey Wright), who goes by Monk, through his frustrations with the kinds of stories he thinks Black writers are allowed to tell.
After one of his more academic books has poor sales, a frustrated Monk decides to pen a more stereotypically Black story under a pseudonym. That book’s title is “My Pafology.” In this scene, as Monk begins to write, his clichéd creations come alive before him: Willy the Wonker and Van Go, played by Keith David and Okieriete Onaodowan.
Narrating the scene, Jefferson said that this sequence doesn’t appear in the novel; rather, the book recreates the entirety of “My Pafology” within its pages. To make Monk’s writing cinematic, Jefferson chose to stage it with Monk at the desk writing, his characters acting out his dialogue around him.
While humor is the intention of the scene, Jefferson said, “Ok and Keith David are such great actors that you have this inclination to take them seriously.” He said that nuance, and the desire to not play the scene too broadly, only makes the scene better.
Read the review here: nyti.ms/3TrJk6V
Subscribe: http://bit.ly/U8Ys7n
More from The New York Times Video: http://nytimes.com/video
----------
Whether it's reporting on conflicts abroad and political divisions at home, or covering the latest style trends and scientific developments, New York Times video journalists provide a revealing and unforgettable view of the world. It's all the news that's fit to watch.
Learn English Through Novel Story Level 4 -- Little Women -- Easy English Listening Practice For Beginners
☞ Learn English Through Story with Subtitles is a fre...
Learn English Through Novel Story Level 4 -- Little Women -- Easy English Listening Practice For Beginners
☞ Learn English Through Story with Subtitles is a free Channel for English learners.
☞ Reading in English is one of the most effective ways to improve language skills. These stories help to extend vocabulary in “the most natural way.” Research has shown that students who read in English improve in every area of language learning at a faster rate than students who don't read. Not only reading skills but aslo listening skills are improved thanks to the professional native voices.
☞ Thanks for watching!
☞ Please share and like if you enjoyed the video :) thanks so much ♥
Learn English Through Novel Story Level 4 -- Little Women -- Easy English Listening Practice For Beginners
☞ Learn English Through Story with Subtitles is a free Channel for English learners.
☞ Reading in English is one of the most effective ways to improve language skills. These stories help to extend vocabulary in “the most natural way.” Research has shown that students who read in English improve in every area of language learning at a faster rate than students who don't read. Not only reading skills but aslo listening skills are improved thanks to the professional native voices.
☞ Thanks for watching!
☞ Please share and like if you enjoyed the video :) thanks so much ♥
Let me know - especially the classics buffs out there.
The books I mention in the video, with links to buy them on Amazon (yep I'm an affiliate) and to my revi...
Let me know - especially the classics buffs out there.
The books I mention in the video, with links to buy them on Amazon (yep I'm an affiliate) and to my review/analysis, if I've filmed one:
Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
AM: http://amzn.to/2syYcFy
Reader's Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2InnwVIw4w&t=13s
DeLillo - Underworld
AM: http://amzn.to/2uCVUS6
My Top 5 DeLillo Books, though that's a lo-fi video even by my standards. (It's not modesty, the light's truly shit).: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYqTaOoKzz4
Pynchon - Against the Day
AM: http://amzn.to/2tBuAHi
My Top 5 Pynchon Books: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsQy8o5wAMM
Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
AM: http://amzn.to/2sEGFqk
Reader's Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua7VRKDtcds
Pynchon - Mason & Dixon
AM: http://amzn.to/2tEBye6
Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBxFKOGLuKQ
Wallace - Infinite Jest
AM: http://amzn.to/2tCiGgc
Reader's Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qYRPa8m-so
Let me know - especially the classics buffs out there.
The books I mention in the video, with links to buy them on Amazon (yep I'm an affiliate) and to my review/analysis, if I've filmed one:
Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
AM: http://amzn.to/2syYcFy
Reader's Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2InnwVIw4w&t=13s
DeLillo - Underworld
AM: http://amzn.to/2uCVUS6
My Top 5 DeLillo Books, though that's a lo-fi video even by my standards. (It's not modesty, the light's truly shit).: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYqTaOoKzz4
Pynchon - Against the Day
AM: http://amzn.to/2tBuAHi
My Top 5 Pynchon Books: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsQy8o5wAMM
Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
AM: http://amzn.to/2sEGFqk
Reader's Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua7VRKDtcds
Pynchon - Mason & Dixon
AM: http://amzn.to/2tEBye6
Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBxFKOGLuKQ
Wallace - Infinite Jest
AM: http://amzn.to/2tCiGgc
Reader's Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qYRPa8m-so
Dr Kasia Boddy (UCL English Language & Literature)
Parodied almost as soon as it was announced, and generally regarded as a topic beneath the remit of seriou...
Dr Kasia Boddy (UCL English Language & Literature)
Parodied almost as soon as it was announced, and generally regarded as a topic beneath the remit of serious literary criticism, the Great American Novel enterprise has proved more durable and more various than almost any other in American literary culture. It remains the bench-mark for literary ambition, prestige, and sales. This lecture, marking World Book Day, considera some of the forms the Great American Novel has taken in its 150-year history and ask what social, political, moral, commercial and aesthetic needs it so persistently promises to serve.
Dr Kasia Boddy (UCL English Language & Literature)
Parodied almost as soon as it was announced, and generally regarded as a topic beneath the remit of serious literary criticism, the Great American Novel enterprise has proved more durable and more various than almost any other in American literary culture. It remains the bench-mark for literary ambition, prestige, and sales. This lecture, marking World Book Day, considera some of the forms the Great American Novel has taken in its 150-year history and ask what social, political, moral, commercial and aesthetic needs it so persistently promises to serve.
Taken from the album “Rolling up The Hill”
Out Now on Xtra Mile Recordings.
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/BoT-Rolling_iTunes
XMR: http://smarturl.it/BoT-Rolling_...
Taken from the album “Rolling up The Hill”
Out Now on Xtra Mile Recordings.
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/BoT-Rolling_iTunes
XMR: http://smarturl.it/BoT-Rolling_XMR
Video by Beans on Toast
Thanks to the Americans for dancing.
www.beansontoastmusic.com
Taken from the album “Rolling up The Hill”
Out Now on Xtra Mile Recordings.
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/BoT-Rolling_iTunes
XMR: http://smarturl.it/BoT-Rolling_XMR
Video by Beans on Toast
Thanks to the Americans for dancing.
www.beansontoastmusic.com
Get your hands on the greatest novel of the year SPACE CARROTS!: A Novel by best selling author Josh Carrott here! - https://amzn.to/3tcfvN8
As the year nears ...
Get your hands on the greatest novel of the year SPACE CARROTS!: A Novel by best selling author Josh Carrott here! - https://amzn.to/3tcfvN8
As the year nears its end, we've got one last video in the States for 2023 and it's at none other than the restaurant serving up (arguably) the BEST Fried Chicken in all of America - Willie Mae's!
Huge thanks to Willie Mae's for being so accommodating and letting us film!
https://williemaesrestaurant.com/
Check out our latest JOLLY merch at http://getjolly.store
Click here to buy Josh's bestselling autobiography! https://amzn.eu/d/73xtwcy
Hit join and become a Jollybean member to join us in our members-only livestreams:
https://www.youtube.com/jolly/join
Special thanks to our Jollybean VIPs for supporting us in making this video!
Kyle Ann
TIFFANY JACOBS
Johnathon Randle
Li Winslow
Bettie Meier
Claim2Game (a.k.a isaiah gollan 20)
James Wilson
63angel
Florian Adamek
Raileigh GJ
tralalaladee
Vicky Bham
Jamedalamus
David Whitener
Reilly Willoughby
12rose3
Julian Leung
Yun Lim
Laykan Dowdy
heather owen
CitrusQuill
Gloria Kwon
lira12tan
Andi526
Get your hands on the greatest novel of the year SPACE CARROTS!: A Novel by best selling author Josh Carrott here! - https://amzn.to/3tcfvN8
As the year nears its end, we've got one last video in the States for 2023 and it's at none other than the restaurant serving up (arguably) the BEST Fried Chicken in all of America - Willie Mae's!
Huge thanks to Willie Mae's for being so accommodating and letting us film!
https://williemaesrestaurant.com/
Check out our latest JOLLY merch at http://getjolly.store
Click here to buy Josh's bestselling autobiography! https://amzn.eu/d/73xtwcy
Hit join and become a Jollybean member to join us in our members-only livestreams:
https://www.youtube.com/jolly/join
Special thanks to our Jollybean VIPs for supporting us in making this video!
Kyle Ann
TIFFANY JACOBS
Johnathon Randle
Li Winslow
Bettie Meier
Claim2Game (a.k.a isaiah gollan 20)
James Wilson
63angel
Florian Adamek
Raileigh GJ
tralalaladee
Vicky Bham
Jamedalamus
David Whitener
Reilly Willoughby
12rose3
Julian Leung
Yun Lim
Laykan Dowdy
heather owen
CitrusQuill
Gloria Kwon
lira12tan
Andi526
Writing the great American novel begins with researching past great American novels, and deciding what has not yet been said about the country's biggest failure...
Writing the great American novel begins with researching past great American novels, and deciding what has not yet been said about the country's biggest failures and best achievements. Construct a novel that relates universally to all Americans with advice from an educator in this free video on general education.
Expert: Laura Turner
Bio: Laura Turner received her B.A. in English from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., graduating magna cum laude with honors. Her plays have been seen and heard from Alaska to Tennessee.
Filmmaker: Todd Green
Writing the great American novel begins with researching past great American novels, and deciding what has not yet been said about the country's biggest failures and best achievements. Construct a novel that relates universally to all Americans with advice from an educator in this free video on general education.
Expert: Laura Turner
Bio: Laura Turner received her B.A. in English from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., graduating magna cum laude with honors. Her plays have been seen and heard from Alaska to Tennessee.
Filmmaker: Todd Green
Expand for more information 👇
The term "Great American Novel" has been thrown around a great deal. But what does it mean? And does any book embody the elusive ideal?
Links 💻
My blog post on this topic: https://supposedlyfun.com/2022/06/30/what-is-the-great-american-novel/
Wikipedia’s article about the Great American Novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Novel
Further Viewing 🎥
My review of Lonesome Dove: https://youtu.be/bf5tx26fKNs
Is Gone With the Wind racist? https://youtu.be/7kdP568OC_Q
My Pulitzer Prize Takeaways from 2022: https://youtu.be/RhB_yJxaMck
My husband made a cookbook! Check it out here:
https://www.blurb.com/b/10189765-my-mack-and-cheese-cookbook-gifts-from-the-kitche
But wait, there's more!
Email: supposedlyfungreg-at-gmail.com
Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/supposedlyfun
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/supposedlyfun/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SupposedlyFun
Website: https://supposedlyfun.com/
A conventional Black novel comes to life, with both comedic and dramatic results, in this scene from “American Fiction.”
The film, written and directed by Cord Jefferson, who adapted Percival Everett’s 2001 novel, “Erasure,” follows the writer Thelonious Ellison (Jeffrey Wright), who goes by Monk, through his frustrations with the kinds of stories he thinks Black writers are allowed to tell.
After one of his more academic books has poor sales, a frustrated Monk decides to pen a more stereotypically Black story under a pseudonym. That book’s title is “My Pafology.” In this scene, as Monk begins to write, his clichéd creations come alive before him: Willy the Wonker and Van Go, played by Keith David and Okieriete Onaodowan.
Narrating the scene, Jefferson said that this sequence doesn’t appear in the novel; rather, the book recreates the entirety of “My Pafology” within its pages. To make Monk’s writing cinematic, Jefferson chose to stage it with Monk at the desk writing, his characters acting out his dialogue around him.
While humor is the intention of the scene, Jefferson said, “Ok and Keith David are such great actors that you have this inclination to take them seriously.” He said that nuance, and the desire to not play the scene too broadly, only makes the scene better.
Read the review here: nyti.ms/3TrJk6V
Subscribe: http://bit.ly/U8Ys7n
More from The New York Times Video: http://nytimes.com/video
----------
Whether it's reporting on conflicts abroad and political divisions at home, or covering the latest style trends and scientific developments, New York Times video journalists provide a revealing and unforgettable view of the world. It's all the news that's fit to watch.
Learn English Through Novel Story Level 4 -- Little Women -- Easy English Listening Practice For Beginners
☞ Learn English Through Story with Subtitles is a free Channel for English learners.
☞ Reading in English is one of the most effective ways to improve language skills. These stories help to extend vocabulary in “the most natural way.” Research has shown that students who read in English improve in every area of language learning at a faster rate than students who don't read. Not only reading skills but aslo listening skills are improved thanks to the professional native voices.
☞ Thanks for watching!
☞ Please share and like if you enjoyed the video :) thanks so much ♥
Let me know - especially the classics buffs out there.
The books I mention in the video, with links to buy them on Amazon (yep I'm an affiliate) and to my review/analysis, if I've filmed one:
Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
AM: http://amzn.to/2syYcFy
Reader's Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2InnwVIw4w&t=13s
DeLillo - Underworld
AM: http://amzn.to/2uCVUS6
My Top 5 DeLillo Books, though that's a lo-fi video even by my standards. (It's not modesty, the light's truly shit).: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYqTaOoKzz4
Pynchon - Against the Day
AM: http://amzn.to/2tBuAHi
My Top 5 Pynchon Books: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsQy8o5wAMM
Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
AM: http://amzn.to/2sEGFqk
Reader's Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua7VRKDtcds
Pynchon - Mason & Dixon
AM: http://amzn.to/2tEBye6
Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBxFKOGLuKQ
Wallace - Infinite Jest
AM: http://amzn.to/2tCiGgc
Reader's Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qYRPa8m-so
Dr Kasia Boddy (UCL English Language & Literature)
Parodied almost as soon as it was announced, and generally regarded as a topic beneath the remit of serious literary criticism, the Great American Novel enterprise has proved more durable and more various than almost any other in American literary culture. It remains the bench-mark for literary ambition, prestige, and sales. This lecture, marking World Book Day, considera some of the forms the Great American Novel has taken in its 150-year history and ask what social, political, moral, commercial and aesthetic needs it so persistently promises to serve.
Taken from the album “Rolling up The Hill”
Out Now on Xtra Mile Recordings.
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Writing the great American novel begins with researching past great American novels, and deciding what has not yet been said about the country's biggest failures and best achievements. Construct a novel that relates universally to all Americans with advice from an educator in this free video on general education.
Expert: Laura Turner
Bio: Laura Turner received her B.A. in English from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., graduating magna cum laude with honors. Her plays have been seen and heard from Alaska to Tennessee.
Filmmaker: Todd Green
Sontag was accused of plagiarism by Ellen Lee, who discovered at least twelve passages in the 387-page book that were similar to passages in four other books about Modjeska, including My Mortal Enemy, a novel by Willa Cather. (Cather wrote: "When Oswald asked her to propose a toast, she put out her long arm, lifted her glass, and looking into the blur of the candlelight with a grave face, said: 'To my coun-n-try!'" Sontag wrote, "When asked to propose a toast, she put out her long arm, lifted her glass, and looking into the blur of the candlelight, crooned, 'To my new country!'" "Country," muttered Miss Collingridge. "Not 'coun-n-try.'") The quotations were presented without credit or attribution. Sontag said about using the passages, "All of us who deal with real characters in history transcribe and adopt original sources in the original domain. I've used these sources and I've completely transformed them. I have these books. I've looked at these books. There's a larger argument to be made that all of literature is a series of references and allusions."