Great American Novel

Great American Novel

Por: Scott Yarbrough and Kirk Curnutt
Few literary terms are more hotly debated, discounted, or derided than the "Great American Novel." But while critics routinely dismiss the phrase as at best hype and as at worst exclusionary, the belief that a national literature commensurate with both the scope and the contradictions of being American persists. In this podcast Scott Yarbrough and Kirk Curnutt examine totemic works such as Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and Toni Morrison's Beloved that have been labeled GANs, exploring their themes, forms, and reception histories, asking why, when, and how they entered the literary canon. Readers beware: there be spoilers here, and other hijinks ensue...
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Episode 16: Classics of American Noir 02/11/2022
Searching for the Ghost of Tom Joad in John Steinbeck's THE GRAPES OF WRATH 01/09/2022
Episode 14: Ride into the sun--Cormac McCarthy's BLOOD MERIDIAN 11/07/2022
Homing in on the Prairie with Willa Cather's My Ántonia 15/06/2022
Episode 12: Hitting the Road with LOLITA 27/04/2022
The Everyday Ecstasy of Marilynne Robinsone's GILEAD 14/03/2022
Episode 10: Finding the Lost Generation in Hemingway's THE SUN ALSO RISES 17/01/2022
Episode 9: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 29/12/2021
Episode 8: Beloved and Ghosts of the Past, the Present, and Possibly the Future 24/11/2021
Episode 7–All that Jazz: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby 14/10/2021
Episode 6: Watching the Horizon in THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD 20/08/2021
Episode 5: Blending Black and White in ABSALOM, ABSALOM! 23/07/2021
Episode 4: Returning to THE AGE OF INNOCENCE 14/06/2021
Episode 3: Seeing Ralph Ellison's INVISIBLE MAN Clearly 14/05/2021
Episode 2: Diving with MOBY DICK 23/04/2021
Definitions and Debates: What Exactly is a GAN? 31/03/2021
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