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Amy Hungerford

(ENGL 291) In The American Novel Since 1945 students will study a wide range of works from 1945 to the present. The course traces the formal and thematic developments of the novel in this period, focusing on the relationship between writers and readers, the conditions of publishing, innovations in the novel's form, fiction's engagement with history, and the changing place of literature in American... more

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In her final lecture of the course, Professor Hungerford evaluates Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated with respect to one of her areas of expertise, American writing about the Holocaust. She points out how the novel takes on some of the... more

In this first of two lectures on the students' choice end-of-semester novel, Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated (2002), Professor Hungerford models several methods for approaching and evaluating a new work of fiction. She shows how Foer... more

In this second lecture on The Known World, Professor Hungerford addresses Edward P. Jones's ambitious and ambivalent relation to literacy. Jones shows us the power of narrative to bring together the fragmentation of the world, but is at the same time... more

In the first of her two lectures on Edward P. Jones's The Known World, Professor Hungerford begins from the novel's title, asking what counts as knowledge in the novel and why knowledge is central to the story. This leads to related questions: who is... more

In this final lecture on The Human Stain, Professor Hungerford argues that desire is the engine of narrative, for Roth, both at the structural level and in the very grammar of his sentences. Sex and writing are alike in their attempt to cross the bou... more

In this lecture on The Human Stain, Professor Hungerford traces the ways that Roth's novel conforms to and pushes beyond the genre she calls the Identity Plot. Exploring the various ways that race can be construed as category, mark, biology, or perfo... more

In this lecture Professor Hungerford discusses how the novels we read are shaped by legal and market constraints. She traces a history of censorship from the Comstock laws, to the policing of Joyce's Ulysses and Ginsberg's Howl, and shows how changes... more

In this second lecture on Blood Meridian, Professor Hungerford builds a wide-ranging argument about the status of good and evil in the novel from a small detail, the Bible the protagonist carries with him in spite of his illiteracy. This detail is on... more

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3.8 out of 5 stars from 104 ratings
  • Great initiative!

    I think it is great that Yale has made these available for free! I am only on lecture four but I have enjoyed it very much and look forward to learning more. Thanks again!

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    Jyss_f
    Australia9 years ago
  • American Novel after 1945

    I am an English major, and yet when I happened to see this course for the time , I thought to myself that the literature course is supposed to be taught this way so taht it could arouse students' interesting in reading the story, knowing the characters, and obtaining a deeper understanding of the background the works have managed to present. For whatever reason, I love this course, and I admire Prof. Hungerford's passion for novels, and for the literature in general.

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    Marcus Bian
    United States12 years ago
  • American Novel since 1945. Amy Hungerford

    The first lecture hooked me. Love her passion for the novel. Like being an undergrad again in the presence of a really dedicated professor who is a long way from burnout.

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    rrsshsrrs
    United States13 years ago

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