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The areas in which philosophy and literature overlap are examined in this program by renowned Oxford novelist Iris Murdoch. Style and structure in philosophical writing are compared and contrasted with those in literature. The narrative abilities of Plato, Schopenhauer, and Kant are examined. Philosophy's predilection for accepting only literature that supports its theories is discussed as a source of antagonism between the two disciplines.

Interview with the 2007 Nobel Laureate in Literature Doris Lessing at her home in London, 14 April 2007. The interviewer is Professor John Mullan. Lessing comments on her early days as a writer and working on first book, 'The Grass is Singing'. For the complete interview, visit: nobelprize.org

The Daily Show's John Oliver sounds off on, um, apocalyptic literature. Featuring Rob Kutner's "Apocalypse How" and sponsored by JBooks.com. Eschatology and comedy: together at last. Editor: Alfred DeGrand DP: Nathan Milford Written & Directed by Rob Kutner Music by Fletcher Moore Animation by Nick Cogan Special thanks to Nigel Savage

Adopting a multidisciplinary approach called gastro-criticism that draws upon anthropology, sociology, semiotics, history, and literary studies, Professor Ronald Tobin, Associate Vice Chancellor, UC Santa Barbara, elucidates the role of food, service, spectacle, diet, ingestion, and digestion in a number of works drawn from a variety of national literatures. He concludes with specific reference to the seventeenth-century French comic dramatist Molière and his preoccupations with sexuality ...

The Daily Show's JOHN OLIVER, in an unfortunate sombrero, weighs in on his most-hated apocalyptic books - and his love for Applebee's. This video brought to you by Daily Show genius writer, Rob Kutner: www.justforlaughs.com Visit: www.apocalypsehowthebook.com More videos from Rob on http

This is the third installment in the Electric Literature Single Sentence Animation series. www.electricliterature.com SSAs are a creative collaboration between writers published in Electric Literature and contemporary visual artists. The writer selects a single sentence from his or her work and the animator creates a short film in response. Visit us at www.electricliterature.com

John Green hosts Truth or Fail, bringing you facts that he wishes he didn't know about the greatest writers in English Literature.

Bladerunner is a dystopic vision of a nightmarish future where the masses live in squalid conditions and dream of getting off world. Little do they know their masters are engaged in a plan to engineer them into more perfect slaves...a plan called the New World Order. For more information, please visit www.corbettreport.com

The only TV interview that exists with Georges Bataille (1958). About his book Literature And Evil. Interviewer: Pierre Dumayet. Translation: hvolsvellir

This is a movie Deborah Pardes put together to celebrate how literature has impacted so many songwriters. It also is in support of a non profit called www.artistsforliteracy.org.

French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, whose vast world travels form the poetic and descriptive backdrop for his body of work, won the 2008 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday. Le Clezio denied that French culture is in decline.

The areas in which philosophy and literature overlap are examined in this program by world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and Oxford novelist Iris Murdoch. Style and structure in philosophical writing are compared and contrasted with those in literature. The narrative abilities of Plato, Schopenhauer, and Kant are examined. Philosophy's predilection for accepting only literature that supports its theories is discussed as a source of antagonism between the two disciplines....

The areas in which philosophy and literature overlap are examined in this program by world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and Oxford novelist Iris Murdoch. Style and structure in philosophical writing are compared and contrasted with those in literature. The narrative abilities of Plato, Schopenhauer, and Kant are examined. Philosophy's predilection for accepting only literature that supports its theories is discussed as a source of antagonism between the two disciplines....

Google Tech Talks January 29, 2007 ABSTRACT Everyone wants to improve on Web structure, but few see how stuck it is-- the browser limits what can be seen, and the one-way embedded links limit connectivity. I still want to implement the original hypertext concept from the sixties and seventies. Politics and paradigms, not possibility, have held it back. Transclusion-based hypertext has great promise, fulfilling (I believe) all the things people want that the Web cannot do. But to build a ...

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The areas in which philosophy and literature overlap are examined in this program by renowned Oxford novelist Iris Murdoch. Style and structure in philosophical writing are compared and contrasted with those in literature. The narrative abilities of Plato, Schopenhauer, and Kant are examined. Philosophy's predilection for accepting only literature that supports its theories is discussed as a source of antagonism between the two disciplines.

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Following the announcement, Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, told senior editor Simon Frantz why Herta Müller's uniqueness comes from the double experience of being part of a minority language while being under an oppressed society. For more information about the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, please visit: nobelprize.org

Narrative style in literature refers to the storyteller or the narrator in a piece of writing, whether it be first, second or third person, omniscient or otherwise. Identify the narrative style of a piece of literature, while deciding whether or not to trust the narrator, with tips from a published author and English professor in this free video on writing. Expert: David M. Harris Bio: David M. Harris has taught English at Vanderbilt University and elsewhere. Filmmaker: Dimitri LaBarge...

Subscribe at www.youtube.com John Green hosts Truth or Fail, bringing you facts that he wishes he didn't know about the greatest writers in English Literature.

March 4, 2009 The SFU World Literature Program sponsored 'How to Read World Literature', a free public lecture by Dr. David Damrosch, Visiting Professor, Harvard University and Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University. World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective has challenged both this European focus and the very category of "the masterpiece." In case studies ranging from ...

Juan Felipe Herrera traveled as a child with his parents through many small farming towns and cities in California, until finally settling in San Diego. He has taught poetry from kindergarten to the university level and is the author of numerous poetry and children's books, including Calling The Doves, which won the Ezra Jack Keats Award, and Crashboomlove, which was prized with the Americas Award. He also wrote Upside Down Boy, which was adapted into a musical in New York City, and Laughing ...

In which Rosianna talks about books!! - Skinny Bitch - The Bermudez Triangle - Slaughterhouse 5 - Looking for Alaska - The Sleeping Murder - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe - Five Little Pigs - The Best of McSweeney's - Twentieth Century Literary Theory - Playing with the Grown-ups - Literary Terms and Criticism - The 4 Hour Work Week - Infinite Jest ^ cue "Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him Horatio - a fellow of infinite jest"

"World Literature" a Lecture by Fredric Jameson