All Videos Tagged literature (Classroom 2.0) - Classroom 2.0

The First Page: THE CRYING OF LOT 49 by Thomas Pynchon

2010-06-29T17:30:08.712Z

Thomas Pynchon can throw students for a loop—but that's the whole point of Pynchon, isn't it? THE CRYING OF LOT 49 gives students a quick punch of Thomas Pynchon's brand of postmodernism.

Still, students need a bit of preparation before they step into the ring with Pynchon—and Thomas C. Foster, professor at the University of Michigan and the author of HOW TO READ LITERATURE LIKE A PROFESSOR, provides it in the second video in his The First Page series. Professor Foster shows students how paying close attention to the first page—even the first sentence—of THE CRYING OF LOT 49 will help them understand what is to come.

Don't Know Much About Minute Robert Frost

2009-08-26T13:58:22.136Z

One of my favorite spots in Vermont is the Frost gravesite in the cemetery of the First Church in Old Bennington--just down the street from the Bennington Monument.

Robert Frost--New England’s poet of snowy woods, stone wall and apple trees.
I hope this “touch of Frost” will inspire you to read some of his work.

Here’s a link to Robert Frost’s page at Poets.org
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/192

It includes an account of Frost and JFK
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20540

After the inagural, Frost told the new President:

“Be more Irish than Harvard. Poetry and power is the formula for another Augustan Age. Don’t be afraid of power.”

This link is to Middlebury College’s online Frost exhibit
http://midddigital.middlebury.edu/local_files/robert_frost/index.html

And finally, hear Robert Frost for yourself at Poets Out Loud:
http://robertfrostoutloud.com/

Don'tKnowMuchAbout Herman Melville

2009-08-19T21:08:10.095Z

From Kenneth C. Davis, author of DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT LITERATURE.

BookGlutton Widget: Put a Book Community on your Website

2009-05-06T00:20:52.275Z

BookGlutton.com has released a way to embed books and book communities into your website. The Book Launcher Widget allows you to chat inside a book across websites - from anywhere. This video outlines how to grab a book and drop it onto your site along with your reading group.