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Crash Course Literature with John Green is back! Starting next week, we've got 9 new literature episodes for you. Here's what we're reading:
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Sonnets - William Shakespeare (Particularly sonnets 18, 116, & 130)
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Sula - Toni Morrison
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I know that's not nine books. Two of them are two episodes long. You should be able to get Huckleberry Finn and the Sonnets for free, as they're in the public domain. Try the Gutenberg Project. Get on the library waiting list for the rest of them!
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Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Sonnets - William Shakespeare (Particularly sonnets 18, 116, & 130)
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Sula - Toni Morrison
Consider supporting local book stores by purchasing your books through our Bookshop affiliate link https://bookshop.org/shop/complexly or at your local book seller.
I know that's not nine books. Two of them are two episodes long. You should be able to get Huckleberry Finn and the Sonnets for free, as they're in the public domain. Try the Gutenberg Project. Get on the library waiting list for the rest of them!
Crash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at http://www.patreon.com/crashcourse
Thanks to the following Patrons for their generous monthly contributions that help keep Crash Course free for everyone forever:
Mark, Eric Kitchen, Jessica Wode, Jeffrey Thompson, Steve Marshall, Moritz Schmidt, Robert Kunz, Tim Curwick, Jason A Saslow, SR Foxley, Elliot Beter, Jacob Ash, Christian, Jan Schmid, Jirat, Christy Huddleston, Daniel Baulig, Chris Peters, Anna-Ester Volozh, Ian Dundore, Caleb Weeks, and Sheikh Kori Rahman.
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Hi, I'm John Green, this is Crash Course Literature and I'm back! Over the next 10 weeks we're gonna read a bunch of books together.
I got some of them right here, we're gonna read Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Lord of the Flies by William Goulding, my least favorite book. Also Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and a bunch of books that aren't currently on my bookshelf including The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and we're gonna round out our reading list this year with One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, some Shakespeare sonnets, and a personal favorite of mine, Sula by Toni Morrison.
So I've talked a little bit in the past about how and why we read, but as we go into this course, I'd ask you to consider one big question, "What in the heck do you mean when you talk about your self?"
Like you, and this is not a compliment exactly, just an observation, are fiendishly complex. I mean, to borrow a phrase from Walt Whitman, 'You contain multitudes'. Right? And a lot of the adjectives that other people apply to you, like for instance, maybe they say that you're smart, or that you're stupid, are insufficient.
Because you know that you are both smart and stupid. There are some facets of the universe that you understand clearly and with depth, and others that baffle you.
So you aren't a collection of adjectives, at least not entirely. You also aren't a body. I mean you have a body, and if you didn't have it, you would cease to be you, but you aren't your body. Like for one thing, there are pieces of you, outside of your body. You affect your friends and your family. You also make things that live outside of you, from poetry to artwork to initials carved into trees.
And not to sound too much like my brother over at Crash Course Philosophy, but the more we think about this question of what constitutes you, the more vexing it becomes. There are of course many joys to reading literature, but chief among them to me is that literature is a way of exploring and explaining the self, of understanding how we come to identify ourselves and other people as human.
For lack of a better term, how are you going to make yourself up? And how are you going to understand the even more complicated worlds of other people? And what are you going to do if the world refuses to acknowledge your personhood?
Those are some of the questions at the heart of the books we're going to read, along with questions like: Should you shoot your husband if he has rabies? Oh love you are so complicated, and beautiful, and deadly.
Speaking of which, our first book will be Their Eyes Were Watching God. It's a great one so get to reading it and I'll see you next week.
I got some of them right here, we're gonna read Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Lord of the Flies by William Goulding, my least favorite book. Also Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and a bunch of books that aren't currently on my bookshelf including The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and we're gonna round out our reading list this year with One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, some Shakespeare sonnets, and a personal favorite of mine, Sula by Toni Morrison.
So I've talked a little bit in the past about how and why we read, but as we go into this course, I'd ask you to consider one big question, "What in the heck do you mean when you talk about your self?"
Like you, and this is not a compliment exactly, just an observation, are fiendishly complex. I mean, to borrow a phrase from Walt Whitman, 'You contain multitudes'. Right? And a lot of the adjectives that other people apply to you, like for instance, maybe they say that you're smart, or that you're stupid, are insufficient.
Because you know that you are both smart and stupid. There are some facets of the universe that you understand clearly and with depth, and others that baffle you.
So you aren't a collection of adjectives, at least not entirely. You also aren't a body. I mean you have a body, and if you didn't have it, you would cease to be you, but you aren't your body. Like for one thing, there are pieces of you, outside of your body. You affect your friends and your family. You also make things that live outside of you, from poetry to artwork to initials carved into trees.
And not to sound too much like my brother over at Crash Course Philosophy, but the more we think about this question of what constitutes you, the more vexing it becomes. There are of course many joys to reading literature, but chief among them to me is that literature is a way of exploring and explaining the self, of understanding how we come to identify ourselves and other people as human.
For lack of a better term, how are you going to make yourself up? And how are you going to understand the even more complicated worlds of other people? And what are you going to do if the world refuses to acknowledge your personhood?
Those are some of the questions at the heart of the books we're going to read, along with questions like: Should you shoot your husband if he has rabies? Oh love you are so complicated, and beautiful, and deadly.
Speaking of which, our first book will be Their Eyes Were Watching God. It's a great one so get to reading it and I'll see you next week.