A series of lectures and conversations on the work of reading, writing, and thinking about literature. Delivered in support of English courses at Temple College.
Off Book with Dr. Echols
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A series of lectures and conversations on the work of reading, writing, and thinking about literature. Delivered in support of English courses at Temple College.
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August 30, 2024
Three American Poets: Dickinson, Whitman, and Harper
In this last lecture of our series, I ask "Who is American Literature by, and who is it for?" In reading perhaps the two most famous American poets alongside a poet I believe should be one of the most famous, we are positioned to ask this question, and to interrogate our own understanding of what it means to be American. Is literature all about beauty? Existential questions? Formal experiments and mastery? Politics? Untold stories? Dominant narratives? Marginalized ones? The answer is up to you.
August 30, 2024
Life Together: Puritan Values, American Lives
In this lecture, I'll be exploring the roots of Puritan theology in the Protestant Reformation, and the exciting new possibilities, tensions, and problems that this revolutionary theology created for early English settlers in American in the seventeenth century. I'll focus on the speech of John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, to a group of 700 colonists on the importance of modeling Christian charity not only for their own survival, but also to prove the viability of their religious practices before the eyes of the world. This is also known as Winthrop's famous "City Upon a Hill" speech, which later became a byword for the Cold War notion of American Exceptionalism, or the idea that America represents a "chosen people" responsible for modeling virtue to the rest of the world (and thus subject to certain privileges and responsibilities). What connections do you see between Winthrop's speech and our own society? What ideals do you think have survived in American culture from these Puritan beginnings?
August 30, 2024
Providence and Prejudice: Phyllis Wheatley's Revolutionary Poetics
In this short episode, I introduce the work of African-American poet Phyllis Wheatley as no less revolutionary than the writing of Thomases Paine & Jefferson. Enslaved, taken forcefully from her home continent under brutal conditions, named for the ship that carried her and the man who bought her, Wheatley lived and wrote under extreme and traumatic circumstances. Her poetry subtly blends classical allusions and religious principles to assert the moral, intellectual, and literary equality of enslaved Africans to an audience primarily composed of white Europeans, many of whom were implicated and involved in the practice of slavery themselves. If you are interested in learning more about the publication of Wheatley's first book (the first written by an African-American), or about her life, I recommend this blog post from Wake Forest University. There is also a powerful poem written by Eve L. Ewing in response to Wheatley's life and work, written in connection with the 1619 Project.
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