Here is the audio for our second session on Obreht's Inland:
Class audio:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/83xxe31gki62ztn/GMT20200428-140853_Brilliant-.m4a?dl=0
Check back, as I'll be supplementing this post with interviews and reviews.
Here's a link to the audio recording of our discussion and review:
Sunday audio:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hbuj8gcotuit69z/Recording_04-26-20__05_14_PM_20200426_76488.m4a?dl=0
See our Feb. 19th post:
https://www.brilliantminds.info/2020/02/miscelgilgamesh.html
John Paul Lederach, conflict resolution, and Rumi:
https://youtu.be/vFYTlJUwdH8
Relating Rumi to Islam:
Rumi and Islam: Selections from His Stories, Poems, and Discourses--Annotated & Explained Paperback – February 1, 2004 by Ibrahim Dr. Ibrahim Gamard
"Cordelia and Lear"
Author(s): Ivor Morris
Source: Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Spring, 1957), pp. 141-158 Published by: Oxford University Press
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2866957
"The Double Casting of Cordelia and Lear's Fool: A Theatrical View"
Author(s): Richard Abrams
Source: Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 27, No. 4, The English Renaissance and Enlightenment (WINTER 1985), pp. 354-368
Published by: University of Texas Press
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40754779
From The New York Times:
"Alvin Epstein Gets Up Close and Cranky as a Low-Key King Lear"
This may not be an unforgettable "King Lear," but it is always inescapable and uncomfortably present.
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/21/theater/reviews/21lear.html?smid=em-share
"Returning Royalty: Alvin Epstein"
By Jeremy McCarter
https://nymag.com/arts/theater/profiles/17246/
The key book by Mikhail Bakhtin:
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (Theory and History of Literature) First edition by Mikhail Bakhtin (Author)
"The Novelist’s Craft: Reflections on The Brothers Karamazov"
Author(s): PAUL H. ORNSTEIN
Source: American Imago , Vol. 69, No. 3 (Fall 2012), pp. 295-318
Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/26305025
Chapter Title: "The Hero, and the Position of the Author with Regard to the Hero, in Dostoevsky’s Art"
Book Title: Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics
Book Author(s): Mikhail Bakhtin
Book Editor(s): Caryl Emerson
Published by: University of Minnesota Press. (1984)
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctt22727z1.9
Chapter Title: "Dostoevsky’s Polyphonic Novel and Its Treatment in Critical Literature:
Book Title: Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics
Book Author(s): Mikhail Bakhtin
Book Editor(s): Caryl Emerson
Published by: University of Minnesota Press. (1984)
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctt22727z1.8
"Freud on Dostoevsky"
Author(s): HARVEY MINDESS
Source: The American Scholar, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Summer, 1967), pp. 446-452 Published by: The Phi Beta Kappa Society
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41209488
The novel to read: Wise Blood
IMDB link to film: Wise Blood
Vincent Canby on John Huston's film version of Wise Blood:
Screen: 'Wise Blood,' Huston's 33d Feature:The CastScreen: 'Wise Blood,' Huston's 33d Feature: The Cast
"The Sacramental Irony of Flannery O'Connor"
Author(s): Judith F. Wynne
Source: The Southern Literary Journal, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Spring, 1975), pp. 33-49 Published by: University of North Carolina Press
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20077512
"Teilhard de Chardin's Impact on Flannery O'Connor: A Reading of 'Parker's Back'"
Author(s): Karl-Heinz Westarp
Source: The Flannery O'Connor Bulletin, Vol. 12 (Autumn 1983), pp. 93-113
Published by: Board of Regents of the University System by and on behalf of Georgia College and State University
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26669868
Robert Thurman on the Bardo: podcasts
Robertson Davies' novel: Murther & Walking Spirits
Saunder's: Lincoln in the Bardo
IMDB Adrian Lyne's Jacob's Ladder
The Camel Corps:
https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/Directors-Select-Articles/The-United-States-Army-Camel-Corps-1856-66/
https://armyhistory.org/the-u-s-armys-camel-corps-experiment/
Chapter Title: THE OTHER, THE SAME: TOWARDS A METAMODERN POETICS WITH HEDDY HONIGMANN
Chapter Author(s): Annelies van Noortwijk
Book Title: Female Authorship and the Documentary Image Book Subtitle: Theory, Practice and Aesthetics
Book Editor(s): Boel Ulfsdotter, Anna Backman Rogers Published by: Edinburgh University Press. (2018)
Chapter Title: "The Western: Genre and History"
Book Title: Film Genre
Book Subtitle: Hollywood and Beyond
Book Author(s): Barry Langford
Published by: Edinburgh University Press. (2005)
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvxcrbd3.7
Here is a link to the audio recording for our discussion of Inland, Session 1, 4/21 (looks like the email and announcement linked to the full video ...)
Tea Obreht’s novel is challenging to read. It can be both realistic and hallucinogenic, with a postmodern take on the genre fiction of immigration and the Western. I’ll present some background issues that can help prepare you take on the book, or finish it. This time I really have to mind the spoilers!
Here's a link to and audio recording of our discussion:
Here are audio recordings of our recent discussions of Flannery O'Connor:
Here's a preview of our reading list for Summer, with a link to the online catalog entry:
Literature for the 21st Century
Readings include: Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black; Richard Powers’s The Overstory; Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men; James Kelman’s That Was a Shiver, and Other Stories; Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights; Joy Harjo’s An American Sunrise; and Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other. Please read Washington Black prior to the first class.
Here's a link to this morning's class:
Topic: Brilliant Minds, Section 001
Date: Apr 7,2020 9:37 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Audio Only-1(41 MB)
Flannery O'Connor Session 1
And here is a link to the New Yorker article, from 2001, that I mentioned:
This Lonesome Place