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Shakespeare's Sonnets: Crash Course Literature 304
This week, we're learning about sonnets, and English Literature's best-known purveyor of those fourteen-line paeans, William Shakespeare. We'll look at a few of Willy Shakes's biggest hits, including Sonnet 18, "Shall I compare thee to a...
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TED-Ed: Why should you read Edgar Allan Poe? - Scott Peeples
The prisoner strapped under a descending pendulum blade. A raven who refuses to leave the narrator's chamber. A beating heart buried under the floorboards. Poe's macabre and innovative stories of gothic horror have left a timeless mark...
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TED-ED: Why should you read James Joyce's "Ulysses"? - Sam Slote
James Joyce's "Ulysses" is widely considered to be both a literary masterpiece and one of the hardest works of literature to read. It inspires such devotion that once a year, thousands of people all over the world dress up like the...
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TED-Ed: Everything you need to know to read "The Canterbury Tales" - Iseult Gillespie
A portly Miller, barely able to sit on his horse, rambles on about the flighty wife of a crotchety old carpenter and the scholar she takes as her lover. This might sound like a bawdy joke, but it's part of one of the most esteemed works...
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TED-Ed: Alex Gendler: Why should you read "Crime and Punishment"?
What drives someone to kill in cold blood? What goes through the murderer's mind? And what kind of a society breeds such people? Over 150 years ago Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky took these questions up in what would become one of the...
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Don't Reanimate Corpses! Frankenstein Part 1: Crash Course Literature 205
In which John Green teaches you about Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein. Sure, you know Frankenstein the cultural phenomenon, but how much do you know about the novel that started it all? You'll learn about the Romantic movement in...
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The Yellow Wallpaper: Crash Course Literature
Today on Crash Course Literature, John Green teaches you about The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper tells the story of a woman who is a prisoner in her own home, in the name of caring for her mental...
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PTSD and Alien Abduction - Slaughterhouse-Five Part 2: Crash Course Literature 213
In which John Green continues to teach you about Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. (WARNING: When Slaughterhouse-Five was published, some of the crude language in the book caused controversy. We quote one mildly controversial line in...
Tom Nicholas
Marxist Literary Theory - WTF? An Introduction to Marxism and Culture
In this latest episode of What The Theory?, I hope to provide an introduction to Marxism, culture and Marxist Literary Criticism and Theory. We're going to begin with the economic theories of Marx and Engels, particularly their base and...
Tom Nicholas
Literary Texts: Introduction to Cultural Texts and Roland Barthes' From Work to Text
Roland Barthes' From Work to Text is a seminal essay which lays out why, in the humanities, we have come to refer to pieces of literature, films and many other things using the catch-all term "text". Because, we refer a lot to reading a...
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Mark Twain
Known as the Father of American Literature, Mark Twain used satire and a sharp wit to explore and reveal the realities of US society in the 19th century. In doing so he developed an all-new “American style” of writing.
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The Elements Of Drama - Characters
The Elements of Drama - The wonderful world of drama comes alive in The Elements of Drama, as the young host and hostess take viewers on a journey through the works of such famous playwrights as William Shakespeare. Colorful graphics and...
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Understanding Hamlet: Hamlet In Turmoil
Hamlet, Considered by many authorities as Shakespeare’s greatest play, Hamlet may also be the most representative character in all-dramatic literature. It’s a classic tragedy of a young prince torn by indecision. Hamlet rejects Ophelia...
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Understanding Hamlet: Hamlet Plots To Kill Claudius
Hamlet, Considered by many authorities as Shakespeare’s greatest play, Hamlet may also be the most representative character in all-dramatic literature. It’s a classic tragedy of a young prince torn by indecision. Hamlet plots to kill his...
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Understanding Romeo & Juliet: Romeo And Juliet Must Part
Romeo and Juliet is based on the long-standing hatred between two families, it is a tale of star-crossed lovers that is perhaps the greatest tragic love story in English literature. Romeo and Juliet must part after the night they spent...
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Understanding Romeo & Juliet: Juliet Asks The Friar For Help
Romeo and Juliet is based on the long-standing hatred between two families, it is a tale of star-crossed lovers that is perhaps the greatest tragic love story in English literature. Juliet asks the Friar for help, he gives her a sleeping...
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Understanding Romeo & Juliet: Introduction To Shakespeare And The Story Of Romeo And Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is based on the long-standing hatred between two families, it is a tale of star-crossed lovers that is perhaps the greatest tragic love story in English literature. This video is part 1 of the series 'Understanding...
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Understanding Romeo & Juliet: Setting The Scene
Romeo and Juliet is based on the long-standing hatred between two families, it is a tale of star-crossed lovers that is perhaps the greatest tragic love story in English literature. The scene is set. This video is part 2 of the series...
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Understanding Romeo & Juliet: The Masked Party
Romeo and Juliet is based on the long-standing hatred between two families, it is a tale of star-crossed lovers that is perhaps the greatest tragic love story in English literature. The party takes place, and Romeo and Juliet meet for...
Tom Nicholas
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller | How to Read It
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (recently the subject of a television adaptation with George Clooney in the role of the ruthlessly ambitious Colonel Cathcart for US streaming service Hulu) is one of the classic books of the twentieth century....
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Understanding Romeo & Juliet: The Final Scene
Romeo and Juliet is based on the long-standing hatred between two families, it is a tale of star-crossed lovers that is perhaps the greatest tragic love story in English literature. Romeo finds Juliet in the crypt and seeing her dead...
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Understanding Romeo & Juliet: Juliet Must Marry Paris
Romeo and Juliet is based on the long-standing hatred between two families, it is a tale of star-crossed lovers that is perhaps the greatest tragic love story in English literature. Juliet threatens suicide on hearing her marriage to...
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The Evolution of YA
Young Adult Fiction (YA) is dominating literature, and more young people are reading now than ever before. Lindsay Ellis explores how YA carved a place in publishing with It's Lit! from PBS Digital Studios.
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Only Tell Me the Good News - Bias in Research Publication
Publication bias is a big problem when it comes to health research. Researchers sometimes use spin or change the outcomes and goals to make their research seem positive, and the citation system in research literature amplifies the...
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