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MIT_804_Quantum_Physics_I_Spring_2016
Resonances_in_the_complex_k_plane.txt
PROFESSOR: So I want to go a little further to try to put resonances in a more intriguing footing. That you can play with and if you-- at some point interested. So let's think of discovering [INAUDIBLE] that we have. We had A s-- remember the scattered wave was A s e to the ikx [INAUDIBLE] that divided 2. And what was ...
MIT_804_Quantum_Physics_I_Spring_2016
Stationary_states_key_equations.txt
PROFESSOR: We start with the stationary states. In fact, stationary states are going to keep us quite busy for probably a couple of weeks. Because it's a place where you get the intuition about solving Schrodinger's equation. So the stationary states are simple and useful solutions of the Schrodinger equation, very nic...
MIT_804_Quantum_Physics_I_Spring_2016
Reality_condition_in_Fourier_transforms.txt
PROFESSOR: We ask, is psi of x, 0 real? And I told you the answer is no. And how would I know that this is not real? Well, we can take the complex conjugate. And at the end of the day, this will boil down to some property of phi of k. You see, you have an expression phi of x in terms of phi of k. So it would not be sur...
MIT_804_Quantum_Physics_I_Spring_2016
Expectation_values_of_operators.txt
PROFESSOR: Expectation values of operators. So this is, in a sense, one of our first steps that we're going to take towards the interpretation of quantum mechanics. We've had already that the wave function tells you about probabilities. But that's not quite enough to have the full interpretation of what we're doing. So...
MIT_804_Quantum_Physics_I_Spring_2016
Incident_packet_and_delay_for_reflection.txt
PROFESSOR: I'll begin by reviewing quickly what we did last time. We considered what are called finite range potentials, in which over a distance R, in the x-axis, there's a non-zero potential. So the potential is some v of x for x between capital R and 0, is equal to 0 for x larger than capital R, and it's infinity fo...
MIT_804_Quantum_Physics_I_Spring_2016
More_on_superposition_General_state_of_a_photon_and_spin_states.txt
We spoke about superposition, and we showed how, when you have two states that are superimposed, the resulting state that is built up doesn't have properties that are intermediate between the two states that you're superimposing. But rather, when you do a measurement, you obtain the result that you would sometimes-- yo...
MIT_804_Quantum_Physics_I_Spring_2016
Probability_current_and_current_conservation.txt
BARTON ZWIEBACH: After this long detour, you must think that one is just trying to avoid doing the real computation, so here comes, the real computation. The real computation is taking that right hand side on the top of the blackboard and trying to just calculate this right hand side. So back to the calculation. The ca...
The_Steps_Of_Baking
Steps_of_Baking_Ep6_Dividing.txt
welcome to the steps of baking series this is a 13 part video series in which we take a closer look at each individual step of the bread baking process from weighing out your ingredients to cooling your bread down after baking each of these steps is just as important as the next and this week we'll talk about dividing ...
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Steps_of_Baking_Ep13_Cooling.txt
hello friends welcome back to the steps of baking series this is a 13 part video series in which we take a closer look at each individual step of the bread baking process from weighing out your ingredients to cooling your bread down after baking each of these steps is just as important as the next and all of them will ...
The_Steps_Of_Baking
Steps_of_Baking_Ep2_Autolyse.txt
welcome to the steps of baking series there's a 13 part video series in which I delve deeper into each of the steps of baking sometimes overlooked I'm not given the second thought each of these steps is just as important as the next and for every bread you bake you will take most if not all of these steps so this is st...
The_Steps_Of_Baking
Steps_of_Baking_Ep_14_Storage.txt
hello friends and welcome back to the channel in this episode talk about bread storage a few of you requested this video so here it is so when it comes to storage the first thing you need to think about what kind of bread is it the bread made with a preference will last quite a long time a basic dough like this will go...
The_Steps_Of_Baking
Steps_of_Baking_Ep7_Preshaping.txt
welcome to the steps of baking series this is a 13 part video series in which we take a closer look at each of the steps of the bread baking process from weighing out your ingredients to cooling your bread down after baking each of these steps is just as important as the next and all of them affect the outcome so in th...
The_Steps_Of_Baking
Steps_of_Baking_Ep9_Shaping.txt
welcome to the steps to baking series this is a 13 part video series in which we take a closer look at each individual step of the bread baking process from weighing out your ingredients to cooling your bread down after baking each of these steps is just as important as the next and each of them will affect the end res...
Literature_Lectures
9_Jack_Kerouac_On_the_Road_cont.txt
Professor Amy Hungerford: All right. I've put two quotations on the board for your consideration. The first is from Norman Mailer. This is from Advertisements for Myself. He says, "Jack Kerouac lacks discipline, intelligence, honesty, and a sense of the novel." Of course, some people might apply those adjectives to Mai...
Literature_Lectures
20_Philip_Roth_The_Human_Stain_cont.txt
Professor Amy Hungerford: Today I'm going to talk about censorship in the United States since 1945, in the period that we're studying, and I'm going to connect that with The Human Stain and some of my general thoughts about Roth's work at the very end of lecture. So, I'll give you a little bit of history and then a lit...
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ENGL_3328_LECTURE_7A.txt
e well hello here we are again for British literature 2 and we're well into the 19th century now and uh today we're going to be taking up two of the Major Poets of the 19th century Tennison and Browning and first of all however I would like to give you an opportunity to ask any questions uh me about the paper assignmen...
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19_Philip_Roth_The_Human_Stain.txt
Professor Amy Hungerford: Now, what's coming up? As I mentioned last week, on Wednesday I'm going to give my censorship lecture, and in preparation for that I would like you to go to a local bookstore, any one, and just observe how it's laid out, what you see, what your attention is called to, what your attention is no...
Literature_Lectures
5_The_Idea_of_the_Autonomous_Artwork.txt
Prof: Okay. Moving then as quickly as possible into our subject matter for today, we begin a series of lectures on various aspects of twentieth-century formalism-- a big word. At the end of our run through the varieties of twentieth-century formalism, I hope it doesn't seem quite as big and that its many meanings-- yet...
Literature_Lectures
1_Introduction.txt
Prof: I thought I'd begin today--this > is, by the way, the regular practice. This is as close as I get to bulleted Power Point. It's all there. I ought to have got through those topics by the end of the lecture. If I don't, not to worry. I'll pick up wherever the dotted line emerges in the subsequent lecture. In any c...
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14_Maxine_Hong_Kingston_The_Woman_Warrior.txt
Professor Amy Hungerford: It is the seventh week of term, and in this class, if you have kept up, you have read nine novels in seven weeks. So, if you kept up, I want you, right now, to pat yourself on the back. Oh, I don't see a lot of patting. Okay: if you just missed one novel. Okay. I don't want to look. Do your pa...
Literature_Lectures
1_Introductions.txt
Professor Amy Hungerford: This is "American Novel Since 1945." Welcome. I am Amy Hungerford. Today I am going to do a couple of things. In the first half of class, I'm going to tell you a little bit about the class and introduce some of the questions that we will think about over the term if you stay in this course. In...
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5_Vladimir_Nabokov_Lolita.txt
Professor Amy Hungerford: Last time I finished up my lectures on Wise Blood by trying to draw together three different ways of reading the novel into one interpretative framework, and what I ultimately argued was that the New Critical formal unity of the novel that is epitomized, I think (in a somewhat, perhaps, heavy-...
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25_Students_Choice_Novel_Jonathan_Safran_Foer_Everything_is_Illuminated_cont.txt
Professor Amy Hungerford: The exercise of inviting you to choose our last novel, as I think I explained in the very first class of this term, is an exercise in thinking together about what defines a period of literature. So, for all the other books in the syllabus, I came with my rationale for why I included them, and ...
Literature_Lectures
ENGL_3328_LECTURE_6B.txt
Yeah right here okay yeah good good good good okay so we are back now from our break now all lively and ready to go okay chapter eight at the beginning of chapter eight we have the narrator telling us let us strike the keynote again before pursuing the tomb when she was half a dozen years younger Louisa had been overhe...
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18_Cormac_McCarthy_Blood_Meridian_cont.txt
Professor Amy Hungerford: Starting on page 312, here is the little detail. This is the kid after he has left the Glanton Gang. They've been routed by the Yumas, and now he is on his own. He traveled about--[This is the middle of the page.] He traveled about from place to place. He did not avoid the company of other men...
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Lecture_7_Israel_in_Egypt_Moses_and_the_Beginning_of_Yahwism_Genesis_37_Exodus_4.txt
Professor Christine Hayes: We were talking last time about the mysterious episode by the Yabbok River, when Jacob undergoes a change in name, and I mentioned the fact that in the biblical view, the name of something somehow encapsulates its very essence. Knowing the name of something gives one power and control over th...
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Lecture_22_The_Restoration_1_and_2_Chronicles_Ezra_and_Nehemiah.txt
Professor Christine Hayes: Last time we started looking at the psalms and a number of different genres or forms in which the psalms appear. We were just looking at a psalm last time which seems to explicitly reject the Deuteronomistic interpretation of the national history and the national tragedy, depicting Israel as ...
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Lecture_8_Exodus_From_Egypt_to_Sinai_Exodus_524_32_Numbers.txt
Professor Christine Hayes: So following the theophany at the burning bush, Moses returns to Egypt, and he initiates what will become ultimately a battle of wills between Pharaoh and God. The story in Exodus has high drama, and lots of folkloric elements, including this contest between Moses and Aaron on the one hand, a...
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24_Students_Choice_Novel_Jonathan_Safran_Foer_Everything_is_Illuminated.txt
Professor Amy Hungerford: All right. So, today we're going to talk about Everything is Illuminated, and Eli has actually agreed to stand next to me for the whole lecture and translate my lecture into Ukrainian dialect. Thank you, Eli. I'll call you up in a minute. For anyone visiting the class today, what we are doing ...
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Lecture_2_The_Hebrew_Bible_in_Its_Ancient_Near_Eastern_Setting_Biblical_Religion_in_Context.txt
Professor Christine Hayes: I mentioned in the opening lecture that this course is going to examine the biblical corpus from a variety of different viewpoints and take a variety of approaches, historical, literary, religious, cultural. And today we are going to begin our appraisal of the first portion of the Bible as th...
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2_Richard_Wright_Black_Boy.txt
Professor Amy Hungerford: I just want to recap what I talked about last time very briefly. I made the point in the first lecture that American literature in the middle of the twentieth century is particularly preoccupied with the relationship between the writer and the reader, between imagination and lived experience, ...
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21_Philip_Roth_The_Human_Stain_cont.txt
Professor Amy Hungerford: All right. So, today I'm going to give my second and final lecture on The Human Stain. My first lecture focused on identity, and my final argument about the novel in relation to the question of identity is that the first half of the novel comes down on the definition of identity through secrec...
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Lecture_5_Critical_Approaches_to_the_Bible_Introduction_to_Genesis_1250.txt
Professor Christine Hayes: We were talking last time about evidence of the use of different sources in the biblical text, and I mentioned Richard Simon, who was the first to argue that perhaps Moses wasn't the author of the entire Torah. In the mid-eighteenth century a fellow named Jean Astruc first noticed the use of ...
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26_Reflections_Who_Doesnt_Hate_Theory_Now.txt
Prof: Well, last time we saved theory from the clutches of Knapp and Michaels, and we did so by saying that there really is a difference between language and speech. That's a claim that I want to continue investigating in today's concluding lecture, but in the meantime when I say we saved theory, you may well be asking...
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11_John_Barth_Lost_in_the_Funhouse.txt
Professor Amy Hungerford: Let me ask you a question first about John Barth and the stories that I asked you to read. Which of them was your favorite? Some cackling I hear. None of them? Which of them was your favorite?Student: "Night-Sea Journey." Professor Amy Hungerford: "Night-Sea Journey." Why?Student: I thought it...
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8_Jack_Kerouac_On_the_Road.txt
Professor Amy Hungerford: So, today we find ourselves in a very different novelistic world than we've been in for the last week and a half: On the Road. Did anyone take this course because they love On the Road? Anybody? One, sort of ambivalently. Yes. Okay. Sometimes I do get students who have just an image of this no...
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ENGL_3328_LECTURE_3A.txt
a [Music] [Music] [Music] okay so here we are again for another session of English 3328 British literature from the late 18th century beginning of the 19th century to the present time and we have been discussing Wordsworth and at the end of our last class we had been going over words where tinter Abby in considerable d...
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23_Edward_P_Jones_The_Known_World_cont.txt
Professor Amy Hungerford: My first lecture on The Known World focused on the question of knowledge and the problems of knowledge that the text raises for us throughout, both at the formal level and at the thematic level. So, I ended up with a reading of the account of the Broussard trial and how more and more detailed ...
Literature_Lectures
ENGL_3328_LECTURE_2B.txt
okay so we are now back alright right before we took our break I was reading aloud Blake's poem the the little black boy now once again as I said before the break what we need to pay attention to here is the persona in the poem we actually have two voices but the principal voice is that of the little boy the little bla...
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ENGL_3328_LECTURE_2A.txt
you well hello again here we are back for our second session and we're going to be taking up Blake this evening and then we're going to begin our discussion of Wordsworth which we will be continuing into next week or for those of you who are watching this on on tape or dvd in the next segment so first of all though I w...
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Lecture_20_Responses_to_Suffering_and_Evil_Lamentations_and_Wisdom_Literature.txt
Professor Christine Hayes: When Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon burned the temple and destroyed Jerusalem, the initial reaction was one of overwhelming grief and sadness, and that's represented primarily in the Book of Lamentations. It's a very short book of dirges that laments the loss of Jerusalem as the death of a beloved...
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ENGL_3328_LECTURE_1A.txt
well welcome here we are for English 3328 the survey of British literature which begins at the end of the 18th and beginning of the nineteenth century and then comes down to the present time so what we're going to be doing in this course is we're going to begin with one of the major cultural transitions in our history ...
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Linguistics_Style_and_Writing_in_the_21st_Century_with_Steven_Pinker.txt
Why is so much writing so bad? Why do we have to struggle with so much legalese? As in, "The revocation by these Regulations of a provision previously revoked subject to savings does not affect the continued operations." Why do we put up with academese? As in, "It is the moment of non-construction, disclosing the absen...
Literature_Lectures
ENGL_3328_LECTURE_5A.txt
he okay all right so here we are once again uh with British literature from roughly the end of the 18th century down to the present time and this evening we're going to be talking about the Victorian issues which of course continue in most cases in one form or another down to our own time and uh this is going to lead u...
Literature_Lectures
19_The_New_Historicism.txt
Prof: So today we turn to a mode of doing literary criticism which was extraordinarily widespread beginning in the late seventies and into the eighties, called the New Historicism. It was definable in ways that I'll turn to in a minute and, as I say, prevalent to a remarkable degree everywhere. It began probably at the...
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Lecture_19_Literary_Prophecy_Perspectives_on_the_Exile_Jeremiah_Ezekiel_and_2nd_Isaiah.txt
Professor Christine Hayes: I'm going to go ahead now and get started with some sixth-century material which--prophetic literature--which confronts the issues that were raised by the final destruction of Jerusalem. What was the meaning of this event and how could it be reconciled with the concept of Israel as God's elec...
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Lecture_15_Hebrew_Prophecy_The_NonLiterary_Prophets.txt
Professor Christine Hayes: So we were talking last time about the Deuteronomistic historian and their interpretation of the events that befell Israel, a very special interpretation that would make it possible for Israel to remain intact after the destruction of the state, the temple and the national basis of their soci...
Literature_Lectures
18_The_Political_Unconscious.txt
Prof: Well, I'd like to begin by pointing out that the first name of Fredric Jameson is spelled F-r-e-d-r-i-c. The reason I point that out is that most scholars don't seem to be able to grasp that simple fact and that references to him, which are rife in the critical literature, perhaps one-third of the time spell his ...
Literature_Lectures
Lecture_10_Biblical_Law_The_Three_Legal_Corpora_of_JE_Exodus_P_Leviticus_and_Numbers_and_D.txt
Professor Christine Hayes: So as we saw last week, before we stopped to talk about the priestly materials and the Holiness Code--as we saw last week, the covenant ceremony at Sinai included God's announcement of and Israel's agreement to certain covenantal stipulations. So Exodus 24:3 and 4, describe this agreement as ...
Literature_Lectures
Lecture_3_The_Hebrew_Bible_in_Its_Ancient_Near_Eastern_Setting_Genesis_14_in_Context.txt
Professor Christine Hayes: Today what I'd like to do is begin our survey of Genesis 1 through 11, in order to illustrate the way that biblical writers--and precisely who we think they were and when they lived is something we'll talk about later--but the way biblical writers drew upon the cultural and religious legacy o...
Literature_Lectures
ENGL_3328_LECTURE_4A.txt
okay well here we are back again for another discussion of English Romantic poetry and this is going to be our final class meeting in which we're going to be discussing the romantics and then we're going to begin to move on to the Victorians and we'll be spending several class meetings with the Victorians and then we'l...
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25_The_End_of_Theory_NeoPragmatism.txt
Prof: Well, I'd like to welcome the prospective students. I won't say the word "Yalie" prematurely, but of course I hope you all come. I wish I had a chance to provide a little context for what I'm going to say today, but maybe you'll scramble into some sense of things as we go along. This lecture concerns an essay wri...
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12_Thomas_Pynchon_The_Crying_of_Lot_49.txt
Professor Amy Hungerford: Before launching into Pynchon today, I thought I would just take a few moments to look back over the books that we've read and talk about the visions of language that they have offered us, and also just to reflect for a moment on the relationship imagined between those visions of language and ...
Literature_Lectures
Frieze_Lecture_The_Metamorphosis_100_years_later.txt
so thank you all for being here I'm pleased to be here to talk with you about Kafka's metamorphosis as Kai said I teach German language and literature and films and I tried to help students understand what's fascinating about this culture and language I've taught this work Dacascos metamorphosis in German a couple of t...
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10_Deconstruction_I.txt
Prof: So anyway, to get launched on today's topic, obviously we confront one of the more formidable figures on our syllabus, a person who recently passed away and who in his last years and into the present has had a kind of second life as a person who in his later work didn't at all repudiate his earlier thoughts or in...
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Unlearning_Our_Loneliness_Week_V_Perils_of_SelfDeception.txt
yeah all right welcome to CH eyes I'm learning on loneliness we are we cry of the peril session a little bit of a music we discussed discussed Milan Kundera's the hitchhiking camp which revealed how ambivalence can be traced to the fact that identities frequently are no more than fictions we have no absolute identity a...
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Harvard_ENGL_E129_Lecture_3_Measure_for_Measure.txt
okay we ready to go welcome back um glad to rest you out of the clutches of the Red Sox for an hour or so we'll we'll return you before the fourth inning is over I'm betting um I a couple of announcements as we begin first just as a matter of information for me since we've reached this point in the term I just want to ...
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22_Edward_P_Jones_The_Known_World.txt
Professor Amy Hungerford: Today, of course I'm going to talk about The Known World, the second-to-last of our novels. In the two lectures that I have planned, I'm going to take up fairly abstract questions, because I think this novel, for all its wealth of detail, calls for an address to these couple of questions. And ...
Literature_Lectures
4_Flannery_OConnor_Wise_Blood_cont.txt
Professor Amy Hungerford: I started last time, and actually my whole lecture existed under the rubric of, this quotation from Sabbath Lily Hawks, and I'm just going to read it to you again. "I like his eyes. They don't look like they see what he's looking at, but they keep on looking." So, last time I suggested that wh...
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Lecture_6_Biblical_Narrative_The_Stories_of_the_Patriarchs_Genesis_1236.txt
Professor Christine Hayes: So last time we started discussing the historical merits of the biblical stories of the patriarchs and the matriarchs. These are contained in Genesis 12 through 50. Scholarly opinion on this matter is seriously divided; something you need to know. Some scholars will point to internal biblical...
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Lecture_21_Biblical_Poetry_Psalms_and_Song_of_Songs.txt
Professor Christine Hayes: Okay, so having studied Job, we've seen that the Bible is not a book with a single uniform style and message. It's an anthology of diverse works that may have different, conflicting points of view. So the conventional religious piety of Proverbs, the firm belief in a system of divine reward a...
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17_The_Frankfurt_School_of_Critical_Theory.txt
Prof: As we get into social perspectives on literature and art, you may ask yourself out of idle curiosity, or perhaps even peevishly, "Why Marx? Why so much Marx? Why is it Marx who seems to stand behind the idea that the social criticism of art is the best and most relevant way to approach this subject matter?" Well,...
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21_AfricanAmerican_Criticism.txt
Prof: So I'm not sure how long this lecture is going to be. We could be finished in ten minutes, though I doubt that, and if we're not finished at the end of the fifty, there are some things that I've reserved for the end of the lecture that I definitely do want to get said. I don't know if you've noticed that there ar...
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7_Russian_Formalism.txt
Prof: All right. So today we start a sequence which takes us through deconstruction, and it's a sequence which has genuine coherence. That is to say, these are figures all of whom are attentive to each other's thought, draw on each other, and build from the materials that we're going to start covering toward a certain-...
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ENGL_3328_LECTURE_6A.txt
[Music] all right good okay uh okay we're talking here by the way for those of you who can't hear us uh we've been talking here about uh prices of books so and any way that you can uh manage to save a little bit on the price of books is is fine with me so okay this evening we're going to be talking about Charles Dicken...
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Lecture_23_Visions_of_the_End_Daniel_and_Apocalyptic_Literature.txt
Professor Christine Hayes: All right, let's go ahead and get started; there's a lot to cover. But I want to try to unite a lot of these disparate parts of the Bible, the many small books clustered here at the end that we'll be considering. I'm going to try to unite them by elaborating certain themes as we move through ...
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ENGL_3328_LECTURE_5B.txt
all right he's back there saying that we're on good okay so we're back um all right let's flip over now to angles talking about the great towns and obviously if you know anything about Engles uh the the great uh partner with Carl Marx uh clearly he is not going to agree with McCall especially with the kind of argument ...
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15_The_Postmodern_Psyche.txt
Prof: So today we're still focused on individual consciousness. "Why?" you might ask. Well, we can speak of the psychogenesis of the text or film as the site or model for symbolic patterning of one sort or another, perhaps in the case certainly of Žižek, to some extent also of Deleuze. Therefore we can still understand...
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Harvard_ENGL_E129_Lecture_4_Othello.txt
um so our text for today is a fellow before we come to talk about it let's uh let me make sure that you all have copies of the information about the paper topic anybody who doesn't have this document this has been a a very carefully crafted exercise that is designed we hope to get you working as close to the text of th...
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9_Linguistics_and_Literature.txt
Prof: Last time I lectured under the illusion that-- I really should get in the habit of looking at the syllabus-- that all you had been assigned for Thursday's lecture was the Saussure. Lo and behold, I did take a glance at the syllabus over the weekend and realized that you'd also been assigned the Levi-Strauss, so w...
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13_Jacques_Lacan_in_Theory.txt
Prof: Well, I'd really better start. I can infer, I think, from looking around the room that there is either post-paper depression at work or that having written the paper, you scarcely had time to read a fifteen-page labyrinthine essay by Lacan. That's unfortunate, and I hope you're able to make up for it soon. Those ...
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Harvard_ENGL_E129_Lecture_2_Troilus_and_Cressida.txt
uh welcome back I'm glad to see you I'm glad to have people in The Ether out there joining us as well uh we're never going to know from day to day who was here and who's there but we're one large community uh we'll get started in a minute or two talking about TR and cresa but before we do I just want to make sure that ...
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24_The_Institutional_Construction_of_Literary_Study.txt
Prof: We've been passing through a variety of discourses concerning the nature of identity, the way in which identity is constructed-- incidentally with varying degrees of emphasis, the way in which identity is constructed in literature. I'm going to come back to this perhaps missing link, literature, in a minute. In t...
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16_Marilynne_Robinson_Housekeeping_cont.txt
Professor Amy Hungerford: Today is Novel Pitch Day. Does everyone have a ballot? If you don't have a ballot, there are some down here. We have a wonderful list of six novels, all brought to you by students from this class. I'll tell you, my dream is that one day someone will pitch their own novel. That's my dream, and ...
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Lecture_1_The_Parts_of_the_Whole.txt
Professor Christine Hayes: You don't need me to tell you that human civilization is very, very old. Nevertheless, our knowledge of the earliest stages of human civilization was quite limited for many centuries. That is, until the great archaeological discoveries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which unearthe...
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Lecture_18_Literary_Prophecy_Micah_Zephaniah_Nahum_and_Habbakuk.txt
Professor Christine Hayes: We were talking last time about prophets of the Assyrian crisis. We've talked about two of the northern prophets, Amos and Hosea, and we started talking about Isaiah who was a southern prophet, a prophet in Judah; and we'll be talking now about the second southern prophet of the Assyrian cris...
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ENGL_3328_LECTURE_7B.txt
okay so here we are we're still in in memoriam we are now moving towards the conclusion of the work and we had been looking at uh at the christmas time which begins in 104 this is the the lyric number 104 uh we looked at 104 and 105. 106. let's let's just go back to 106 just for a moment because i've been saying before...
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Lecture_24_Alternative_Visions_Esther_Ruth_and_Jonah.txt
Professor Christine Hayes: An interesting counterpoint to the apocalyptic literature and the apocalyptic reliance on God's cataclysmic consummation of history in order to dole out justice to the righteous and the wicked, is found in the Book of Esther. And this is a short novella. It's set in fifth-century Persia, it w...
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16_The_Social_Permeability_of_Reader_and_Text.txt
Prof: So we arrive at our turn to sociogenesis. Genesis is, of course, here obviously--even as we read both Jauss and Bakhtin for today--a misleading term in a certain sense; because obviously, the most egregious difference between Jauss and Bakhtin-- and once again you're probably saying to yourself, "Well, my goodnes...
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ENGL_3328_LECTURE_3B.txt
oh alright thank you for telling me yeah we are back good and so we were talking right before the break about the kind of conflict that that Wordsworth was going through and for him this was a real real real crisis because it not only was a division of loyalties between France in England but also remember that at this ...
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Rickert_Manly_How_two_WWI_code_breakers_produced_the_preeminent_edition_of_The_Canterbury_Tales.txt
well thank you very much um I'm extremely honored to be here and I have thanks to a lot of people I must especially thank Alice shrier the director of the special collections Research Center in Regenstein library and her staff because they among other things brought over the display and it was no small job they had to ...
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Lecture_4_Doublets_and_Contradictions_Seams_and_Sources.txt
Professor Christine Hayes: So, last time I gave a reading of the creation accounts that are in Genesis 1 to 3. These are two very different stories but their placement side by side suggests the possibility of a joint reading. Nevertheless they are very different in character, and today I want to focus in on the second ...
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Lecture_11_On_the_Steps_of_Moab_Deuteronomy.txt
Professor Christine Hayes: You may have heard that post-biblical tradition hails Moses as ancient Israel's first and greatest law giver; and certainly the Bible depicts Moses as receiving law from God and conveying it to the Israelites. But clearly Moses isn't the author or compiler of the legal traditions contained in...
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3_Ways_In_and_Out_of_the_Hermeneutic_Circle.txt
Prof: All right. Let's hope we can free our minds of these matters now and turn to something a little more substantive, which is the question--before we plunge in to Gadamer really: what is hermeneutics? Well, what it is is easily enough explained despite the sort of difficulty and thorniness of the word. It is the art...
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Lecture_14_The_Deuteronomistic_History_Response_to_Catastrophe_1_and_2_Kings.txt
Professor Christine Hayes: We were talking last time about the establishment of the monarchy or kingship in Israel and I want to say a little bit about some of the features of Israelite kingship, and today I'll be coming back frequently to the Israelite notions of kingship and royal ideology. But to start off: one of t...
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17_Cormac_McCarthy_Blood_Meridian.txt
Professor Amy Hungerford: Okay. I'd like to begin. Welcome back. It is good to see you all. It's a bit startling. I don't know where those two weeks went. So, tell me: I asked you to read Blood Meridian over break; was this a happy Spring Break task for you? Was it good "beach reading," as I promised? No? No. I'd like,...
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Lecture_12_The_Deuteronomistic_History_Life_in_the_Land_Joshua_and_Judges.txt
Professor Christine Hayes: I was talking last time about the concept of election or choice, God's choice of Israel, Israel as the chosen one, which occurs for the first time in the Book of Deuteronomy. And I was talking about the fact that for Deuteronomy the election of Israel, God's election of Israel means or entail...
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Lecture_13_The_Deuteronomistic_History_Prophets_and_Kings_1_and_2_Samuel.txt
Professor Christine Hayes: One thing that kept cropping up , and it is something that crops up every time I teach this course, and I should always say something about it preemptively, is just a terminological issue. Israelites are not Israelis. The word "Israeli," term "Israeli," refers to a citizen of the modern state...
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7_Vladimir_Nabokov_Lolita_cont.txt
Professor Amy Hungerford: I want to start my lecture today looking back to that handout I gave you--but didn't give you a discussion of--a couple of days ago, from that essay Good Readers and Good Writers that I quoted at the very beginning of class this term. If you took the time to read that, what you saw is Nabokov ...
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20_The_Classical_Feminist_Tradition.txt
Prof: This lecture, I think, starts with a series of preliminaries. The technical term for preliminaries of this kind in literary study is "prolepsis"-- that is to say, the form of anticipation which, in a certain sense, covers what will be talked about later. They are prolepses of this kind. First, I wanted to say tha...
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ENGL_3328_LECTURE_1B.txt
okay and here we are back again from our intermission and uh we're going to begin to talk about the actual material of the course now having spent the first part of our uh discussion this evening talking about the format of the course and the assignments and so on uh one other thing however before we go on that did occ...
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15_Marilynne_Robinson_Housekeeping.txt
Professor Amy Hungerford: Today I wanted to begin with that question I left you with: What does Housekeeping have to do with the Identity Plot? Did you see elements of the Identity Plot in this novel? Who did and what did you see? Yes. What did you see?Student: Oh…Professor Amy Hungerford: Oh. Now you have to make good...
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6_Guest_Lecture_by_Andrew_Goldstone.txt
Professor Amy Hungerford: Today it is my very great privilege and pleasure to introduce Andrew Goldstone, a TF in this course. Andrew is going to provide for you today the only relief you will get all term from my voice, so enjoy it! On the syllabus it says that I would be presenting a lecture on censorship in this slo...
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13_Toni_Morrison_The_Bluest_Eye.txt
Professor Amy Hungerford: So, today we will talk about The Bluest Eye. This novel has a lot to do with the questions that John Barth was thinking about, in a very different register, in Lost in the Funhouse. This is, of course, the story of a little girl who is totally remade by a story that's told to her, and I just w...
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Lecture_17_Literary_Prophecy_Hosea_and_Isaiah.txt
Professor Christine Hayes: We're going to move on now to our second literary prophet and this is the prophet Hosea. He was a native of the northern kingdom. So Amos and Hosea you're going to associate with the Assyrian crisis and they are prophets of the northern kingdom of Israel. He's prophesying in the time of Jerob...
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22_PostColonial_Criticism.txt
Prof: Well, post-colonial studies is really by far the most varied and eclectic of the identity fields that we're passing in review in this portion of the course: eclectic really of necessity, of course, because of the immense variety of the materials covered, but also because of swirling issues and controversies withi...
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14_Influence.txt
Prof: So I'll tell you a little bit about Harold Bloom's career later in the lecture. Those of you who know How to Read a Poem, the books on religion, Shakespeare and the Invention of the Human, and perhaps only know those books, may feel a little surprised at finding him on a literary theory syllabus, but the great ou...
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Lecture_9_The_Priestly_Legacy_Cult_and_Sacrifice_Purity_and_Holiness_in_Leviticus_and_Numbers.txt
Professor Christine Hayes: Today we're going to be turning to Leviticus. And Leviticus is a primary document of the Priestly School. And we identify this work as Priestly because it deals with matters that were of special concern to and under the jurisdiction of priests: the sanctuary, its cultic rituals, the system of...
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8_Semiotics_and_Structuralism.txt
Prof: So I'm going to be pointing to the board, at least in theory. I suppose I expect to be pointing to the board a little bit more today than ordinarily. The usual function of my [chalk] equivalent of Power Point isn't quite the same today because I'm taking an interest in some of these diagrammatic matters as well a...
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4_Configurative_Reading.txt
Prof: So before we go on to talk a little bit about the American historicist hermeneutical scholar E.D. Hirsch, and then Wolfgang Iser--for whom you have your reading assignment-- I want to go back to Gadamer a little bit and say something more about his taste, that is to say, the kind of literary and intellectual cano...