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This is the clearest lecture I have ever heard on Frankenstein- it's extremely insightful and Professor Mellor is extremely well spoken. This has been a (very engaging) lifesaver for my study on Frankenstein.

A little lesson from anthropology: father is always presumptive, mother is always biological. 😜

Mrs. Weaver!! Smrtest englesh teacher I now! Wish I'd have tooked her class.

My brother. My brother. I just found out you passed away. Met you when I was 16 and lost. You picked me up and helped me find a path. And we remained brothers until the day I simply stopped hearing from you, 30 years later. You never placed your heavy burden on me. And being in another country ... I couldn't be there for you as you were for me. I'm sorry, my brother. I love you, bro. May you be sitting at the right-hand of God.

What a load of BS. You can't forget how you wrote a book.

Luv it ❤

Each of us has that place in our hearts that is a lifelong comfort, a place so integral to us that we recall it's repetitive sounds and aromas. It's a lyrical place that feels like home

Quite seriously one of the great poetic geniuses of our time, and I do not make that comment lightly. A gift.

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The Trees is an incredible book.

Thankyou for the very interesting video Ann. I know women would prefer to stand on their own two feet and not lean on a man. However, in your video it really looks like you are leaning on the man with the bald head at the bottom of the screen.

Truly amazing and thoughtful lecture

No dearth of rhetoric, philosophizing, and pseudo-academic drivel at these functions, but the un-avoidable facts are: 1,000,000 net new humans added to this planet every 4.5 days. Decreasing freshwater aquifers, reservoirs, and lakes, with increased nitrogen fertilizer pollution, algal blooms, fish kills/dead zones. Diminished soil quality, decreased pollinators; numbers of insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. Deforestation at an unprecedented pace. Fished-out oceans with continents of plastic, damaged coral reefs, warming waters. A few billion cruelly-treated, slaughtered sentient animals per year-with estimated 30 percent of food wasted. Nearly all life forms have been bio-engineered. Massive overuse of pesticides. Mono-crops increasingly susceptible to global dz. Oblivious, Consumption-addicted people continue buying goods they often don’t need, which are shipped by diesel-burning cargo ships or 18 wheelers. Currently, there are no reasonable solar, wind, hydrogen, electric alternatives. There is an insane push to implement AI--further distancing humans from Nature, render human accomplishment meaningless, and as resources dwindle, wars over resources inevitable. We’re beyond mere academic discussions, wasting time debating climate change, social identity/pronouns, the latest phone apps, and adding to the bloated corpus of descriptive academic terminology.

Incredible testimony to the love of God in Pastor Bennys life.I went through the youth offender system some 45 years ago and at nearly 60 am seriously considering the Bachelor of Theology degree here in the UK.Pastor Bennys testimony is a great inspiration to me and makes my mountain very small to the mountains he successfully crossed.Rikers is one of the most feared prisons in the world to be facing a 120 year sentence without money being almost illiterate to gaining his freedom becoming a doctor of theology it’s unprecedented.God cares about democratic and just government and is a God of second chances thousands are being thrown in the trash bin of humanity the prisons and are written off politicians are becoming more concerned about money Freinds than broken communities.

I have become very interested in gothic and sci Fi if the. Victorian era.

The very fact that there needs to be a video like this, proves that a degree in English, sadly, is one that is rapidly turning out to be an increasingly obsolete one. This, however, is coming from a disillusioned person with one such degree, from India.

Thank you for posting this .

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Beautiful man.

I appreciate her insights, but respectfully ask that she reconsider her audience. She says she'd 'rather not use the mic.' She doesn't realize that her subject matter draws significantly upon disability studies, and that she most certainly has Deaf and Hard of Hearing students in her audience? USE THE MIC. ALWAYS.

This is great! Thanks to everyone who was involved. ASU Film and Media Studies ROCKS.

Ayanna Thompson is amazing. So true.

Wow, Franzen chucked a frog in a fire? Even after hearing him say this, I find it difficult to conjure the image of a young Franzen fireside waiting for the opertunity to fling the reptile onto the ambers aglow with agony. 😮

The greatest Bond ever is Sean Connery

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Great job Memo!

Well done Margaret!

This resonates with me ..

A very interesting conversation and interaction with your young viewers/listeners. I was most fascinated by this encounter for I have just read Crossroads and enjoyed it very much. I have read 4 of your novels which have struck me by their density. Great reading. (By the way, I am 71 years old, so remember the Seventies well, but in Europe.)

673 views. Not bad. More than most writers get in America when they get interviewed. When Norman Mailer was asked his opinion of Jonathan Franzen, he said, "Well, I've read him, and I'll tell you, I got exactly the same impression from his writing as I did when reading Thomas Pynchon...what was it: either V. or Gravity's Rainbow? One of them, anyway. And that is: he is either a great writer, or he has perpetrated one of the greatest literary frauds in the publishing history. That's how I feel about him. As I said, I felt the same way when reading Pynchon. And I admit it: I can't tell whether it's genuinely great writing or he's an absolute literary fraud. I would lean toward the latter explanation. But I really just don't know."

1:14:15 or maybe the yellow skin is just jaundice....since the monster is undead.

1:13:50 what a silly argument. dwarves will be genocided??

44:45 really? this is your thesis? that Mary Shelley wrote an anti-feminist character? seems like you're projecting your biases on something that doesn't exist

"archipelago" pronunciation at 17:18

amazing lecture, probably the best about Mary SHelley I have ever heard.

I would like to thank Matt Bell for asking questions about the actual story. Every other interview is all about writing the book, but what makes Franzen interesting are the content of the books themselves, not the fact that he worked on it during covid.

I loved this especially the ending. Need more likes? -> P r o m o s m.

At 46:41 - she is projecting w men's desires onto men.

Reading Ted Hughes, I've often wondered - is he a natural fascist? After much thought, I would say No - but he can see the appeal. And that appeal, and what opposes it, is one of the major conflicts which run through his poetry.

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She seemed to project her feminist ideology on The novel. I would be interested in an analysis of Mary Shelly’s feelings towards other women.

thank you!

That having and being mode sounds so familiar... Gabriel Marcel's Être et avoir?

Whit should make a movie about prep school in Canada.

Her class "Race, Ethnicity, and the American Dream" was so influential I still think about her lectures. Amazing teacher.

Wow Susan what a lovely video, keep the good working How is everything with you ?

Wow Susan what a lovely video, keep the good working How is everything with you ?

Why create something you don't like? : wow interesting lecture

J. Lennon- How.