Video Lectures Archive: Alphabetical

Achebe, Chinua

• Things Fall Apart (1958): Launching the Modern African Novel
• Things Fall Apart (1958): Oral and Written Narratives in a Global Encounter
• Things Fall Apart (1958): Postcolonial Intertextuality

Albee, Edward

• The American Dream (1960)

Austen, Jane

• Pride and Prejudice (1813): What's in a Novel?
• Pride and Prejudice (1813): Novel-Writing around 1800

Baillie, Joanna

• De Monfort (1789): Staging the Inner Life of Characters
• De Monfort (1789): Romanticism and the Theatre

Barbauld, Anna Laetitia

• To a Little Invisible Being Who is Expected Soon to Become Visible (c. 1795): Analysing a Poem
• To a Little Invisible Being Who is Expected Soon to Become Visible (c. 1795): Contextualising Poetry

Bartlett, Mike

• Charles III (2014)

Bird, Simon

• Ernestine and Kit (2015): Analysing Film
• Ernestine and Kit (2015): Short Story Into Film

Blake, William

• Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794): Into Romanticism
• Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794): Afterlives in Literature, Art, and Music

Bradstreet, Anne

• Oh my dear Grandchild... (1678)

Brontë, Emily

• Wuthering Heights (1847)

Byron, George Gordon

• Manfred (1816/17)

Cabeza de Vaca, Álvar Núñez

• The Relation of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1542)

Capra, Frank

• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939): Terminology and The Power of the Happy End
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939): Transparent Minds, Filibuster, Happy End

Cavendish, Margaret

• The Convent of Pleasure (1668)

Chopin, Kate

• The Awakening (1899)

Collins, Suzanne

• The Hunger Games (2008-2015)

Conrad, Joseph

• Heart of Darkness (1899): Modernism
• Heart of Darkness (1899): Postcolonialism
• Heart of Darkness (1899): Analysing a Novel
• Heart of Darkness (1899): RelatingNarratology, Culture and Politics: Postcolonialism

Cooper, James Fenimore

• The Pioneers (1823)

Cummings, E.E.

• next to of course god america i (1926)

Dabydeen, David

• The Intended (1991): Postcolonial Literatures (WiSe 13/14)
• The Intended (1991): Postcolonial Literatures (WiSe 19/20)
• The Intended (1991): Immigrant Bildungsroman

Desai, Anita

• Clear Light of Day (1980)

Dickens, Charles

• The Chimes (1844)

Dickinson, Emily

• Because I Could Not Stop for Death (1890)

Donne, John

• A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning (1602-11)

Duffy, Carol Ann

• The World's Wife (1999): Poetry - Form, Meaning, Context(s)
• The World's Wife (1999): Poetry and/as Communication

Eliot, T.S.

• The Waste Land (1922)

Franklin, Tom

• Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (2010): What Novels Can Do
• Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (2010): Region and Race - The Literature of the Southern U.S.A.

Ghosh, Amitav

• In an Antique Land (1992)

Griffith, D.W.

• Birth of a Nation (1915): Film Analysis - Techniques and Terminology
• Birth of a Nation (1915): Racism

Guite, Malcolm

• On being told my poetry was found in a broken photo-copier
• The Singing Bowl (2012)

H.D.

• Oread (1915)

Hitchcock, Alfred

• North by Northwest (1959): The Way Hollywood tells It
• North by Northwest (1959): Conformism, Momism, Communism

Horton, George Moses

• On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase a Poet's Freedom (1829)

Hemingway, Ernest

• Hills Like White Elephants (1927)

No Lectures.

Joyce, James

• Dubliners (1914)

Kane, Sarah

• Blasted (1995): Communicating on Stage
• Blasted (1995): The Challenges of In-Yer-Face Theatre

Kennedy, A.L.

• The Blue Book (2012)

Longfellow, Henry W.

• Poems on Slavery (1842)

Lowell, Robert

• A Mad Negro Confined at Munich (1959): Close Reading
• A Mad Negro Confined at Munich (1959): Hermeneutic Circle

Mailer, Norman

• The Armies of the Night (1968)

Marlowe, Christopher

• Edward II (ca. 1591/92)

Marshall, Gary

• Pretty Woman (1990): How to Read a Film
• Pretty Woman (1990): Criticizing Finance Capitalism

Marvell, Andrew

• A Horation Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland (1650)

McCarthy, Tom

• C (2010)

McKay, Claude

• If We Must Die (1919)

Miller, Arthur

• Death of a Salesman (1949): Modernist Drama
• Death of a Salesman (1949): Modernism, the Myth of the American Dream

Milton, John

• Paradise Lost (1667)

Ngugi, Mukoma wa

• Nairobi Heat (2011)

Owen, Wilfred

• Dulce et Decorum Est (1917)

Oyono, Ferdinand

• Houseboy (1966): Reading the Diary Novel - Setting, Place, Time
• Houseboy (1966): Reading the Diary Novel - Character, Theme, Language Use and Style

Perkins Gilman, Charlotte

• The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)

Pope, Alexander

• Windsor Forest (1713)

No lectures.

Rowlandson, Mary

• The Sovereignty and Goodness of God (1682)

Shakespeare, William

• A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595/96)
• Antony and Cleopatra (ca. 1607): Framing the Action
• Antony and Cleopatra (ca. 1607): Transgressive Lovers in Shakespeare's Plays
• As You Like It (1623)
• Dark Lady Sonnets: Close Reading
• Dark Lady Sonnets: Renaissance Poems Talking to Each Other
• King Lear (1605/06)
• Othello (1603): What Tragedy is All About
• Othello (1603): From Page to Stage
• Richard III (1593/97): Building a Character
• Richard III (1593/97): Villains in Shakespeare's Plays
• Romeo and Juliet (1597): What Tragedy is all About
• Romeo and Juliet (1597): From Page to Stage
• Sonnets (WiSe 13/14)
• Sonnets (WiSe 12/13)
• Sonnet 130 (1609)
• The Tempest (1611)

Shelley, Mary

• Frankenstein (1818): The Gothic Novel
• Frankenstein (1818): Narration and the Problem of Truth

Sidney, Sir Philip

• Astrophil and Stella (1591): What is Poetry? Why Do We Read It?
• Astrophil and Stella (1591): Rhythm and Metre, Rhyme and Stanza
• Sonnets

Sinclair, Upton

• The Jungle (1906)

Smith, Charlotte

• Elegiac Sonnets (1784)

Stevenson, Robert Louis

• Treasure Island (1883)

Thiong'o, Ngugi wa

• A Grain of Wheat (1967)
• The Wizard of the Crow (2006)

Tolkien, J.R.R.

• The Lord of the Rings (1954/55)

No lectures.

No lectures.

Walpole, Horace

• The Castle of Otranto (1764)

Wheatley, Phillis

• On the Death of the Rev. George Whitefield (1770)
• On Being Brought from Africa to America (1773)

Whitehead, Colson

• Apex Hides the Hurt (2006): Is there an African American Literature or: What was all that struggle?
• Apex Hides the Hurt (2006): Cultural Studies Meets Narratology
• John Henry Days (2001)

Woolf, Virginia

• Mrs. Dalloway (1925)

Wordsworth, William

• Nutting (1798/1800)

Wroth, Lady Mary

• Sonnets

No lectures.

No lectures.

No lectures.