I read Sula for an English Foreign Language class I had to take in high school in France (the logic was that I'd learn French there while the others learned English). I've since discovered that while I love Toni Morrison's books, I can only spend about 30mins reading them at a time, because they're so emotionally and descriptively intense that otherwise I can't emerge back into the real world for hours, even days.
John please continue to talk about african american literature and even other minorities as this is the only place I know at least that talks about these wonderful books by amazing authors on such a big scale that is accessible for different people of all races. I know black blog posts and reviewers that talk about african american and african literature but because of how small they are many people dont know them.
You are aware he has done more books that have white authors than black right? Seems you are just bitter that u see some minority in a sea of the majority.
As someone who uses crash course a lot in their classes and watches almost all of them, I think this is perhaps one of the best ones that they have produced.
I can never understand why people hate talking about these themes so much that they label everything "SJW". Why are people so regressive and slimy? What it wrong with these people? How can they live so closemindedly? I remember being like that when I was a little kid, and I'm glad I grew out of that.
***** I was raised as one of those terrifying christian wingnuts that thought you were going to hell for everything, even though my parents didn't want that. A combination of my rebellious teenage years, and my excessive empathy (it's even hard for me to hurt or kill things like bugs, spiders, and other pests) made me develop rules for myself that's probably saved me more than any religion. As for how long it took? God, years, and even then I was already hypersensitive to the pain and emotions of other people as a kid. Short answer, I don't really know, and I'm sorry I can't give a better answer :'0
***** I bet they would have complained anyway... but you're right, I think. I actually like hearing about these kinds of stories and I'm already getting sick of them. There are so many books with so many themes! I realize this is important but if you make something a chore, even a good thing, no one's going to want to sit through it.
***** No, I mean I wasn't arguing. They've been pretty anvilicious, I'm agreeing that focusing on entirely one theme for the entire season irritated people justly, regardless of what it was.
Calling someone SJW is pretty much the same (dumb) tactic that lefties uses with the world "racist" but SWJ is used by the right wing, pretty much it means nothing (or just what the speaker wants it to mean). I'm pretty sure that if I say that black people have the same rights of everybody else I will be labeled as SWJ/socialist/comunist/marxist etc. Of course is completely ridiculous!
LittleLion93 There was this one person on the internet I talked to (it was years ago so I don't have a source) that I literally asked what his opinions were, and it was all pro-feminist stuff, but when I said "Oh, so you're feminist" he like fukkin hissed like a wild animal, so mad at me it was like I set his dog on fire. People get so worked up about just the names of these things, it's so hard just to talk about it without wildly misunderstanding people.
I had to read Sula for a LIT class in college, and it's definitely a good read. It's one of those books that makes you want to keep reading just to see what happens next.
Thanks for covering this amazing book John Green. I don't understand why people have a hard time regarding books about the experiences of marginalized people to be "progressive". It is literally a look into the lives of characters who represent real people in our society, but don't get enough attention by mainstream literature. For those calling for a focus more "classical" approach to the conservative literature--I say that I'm sure that those books are the typical reading list in American schools. And who is to determine what is and what isn't "classic literature"? Toni Morrison is a phenomenal writer and it just shows how we need to open up the definition of critical ly acclaimed literature. It should come in all forms amd representation. Diversity of characters, opinions, and story lines are valid.
There's a great couple of courses from the YaleCourses youtube on academic approaches to the Bible. Really worth the watch. It goes over various approaches to biblical criticism, from a generally academic "Let's study this religion in a fairly unbiased way" point of view. They come highly recommended from me at least.
There's a great couple of courses from the YaleCourses youtube on academic approaches to the Bible. Really worth the watch. It goes over various approaches to biblical criticism, from a generally academic "Let's study this religion in a fairly unbiased way" point of view. They come highly recommended from me at least.
I did not know of this story before, but the title peaked my interest... You see, I am Honduran, born and raised, and my hometown is called San Pedro Sula and it is located in Sula Valley...
Mathilde Hasselstrøm It wouldn't work, it would extremely cumbersome and confusing. It doesn't fit for a 10 minutes youtube video, people wouldn't understand shi*. CC Physics is being already hard to swallow in for most of viewers. If your objective is learn mathematics, you should be making exercises and train your brain to think abstractly and not watch youtube videos speaking superficially about it. Math is not like history or geography in which you just decorate a lot of information. Just through a lot of training and exercises you're gonna learn it...
Can you add to this series ? I just started reading Sula after reading Toni’s “the Bluest Eye” and I never would’ve known about half the other books in this series or even read them if I hadn’t come across your channel
IF there will a fourth season of CC Lit. May i suggest some novels that i think would be interesting and also helpful to highschoolers out there. -Fahrenheit 451 -A brave new world - One flew over the cuckoo's nest - 1984 - catch - 22
Wow, this was AMAZING!! I've read Sula at least 5 times, and listened to the audio book even more. This put into words all the complexities within the novel in a very accessible way. Thanks!
I just thought while listening to what John said about 'undervalued identities', while nightshade is primarily known as poisonous, the poisonous ingredient in those berries - atropine - in small quantities is used as an antidote to some neurotoxins due to its quality of being a muscle relaxant. I wonder if that 'undervalued identity' of the nightshade was also implied?
Thanks John, that was really great, I need to put that book on my reading list. Exploring how we can all to easily create false dichotomies and bin things into X or Y is important. It's within the continuum between X and Y that life happens and flourishes. :) Hope you do a 4th season of CC:Literature!
Crash Course Literature continues to be one of my most favorite things on this channel and UA-cam in general. I love and respect the amount of attention and enthusiasm John gives to authors of color, specifically Toni Morrison. Thank you John. Do you take requests?
I too would like it if the works of more Asian authors were covered in this course. To be fair though, the majority of the works covered so far in this series have been from white authors or authors of European descent. Not that there is anything wrong with that, (some of my favorite books are by white authors) but its disingenuous to suggest that John has covered (practically) only black people as a literary subject. You should check out some of the other videos, they're all great!
Oh, I understand very well what you mean, but let's break it down... In season 1, of the 4 works featured, not one was by or about black people. In season 2, of the 10 or so works featured, only 2 were by black authors and the other 1 that featured black characters was by a white author. This season only had 7 or so featured works and only 5 of them talked about race, 1 of which was written by a white author and the other which didn't even feature black people (if memory serves). So while I agree that there haven't been as many diverse authors as I would like to see, it hardly makes a disparity. If ANYTHING it's a disparity toward white "literary subjects".
+gigaman6 Your stats are almost spot on. Though I wouldn't say they favour either side over the whole series. This season did focus heavily on the black side, which was a bit odd, but not entirely unexpected, so I can see both sides of the argument. However. While race plays heavily into these novels I feel like they have underlying themes and motifs that are just as important if not more important to discuss.
You gave a sterling explanation of Sula. I read that book, and I never thought of it in this way before. I actually wish I had watched this video BEFORE reading the book. I would have understood it much better. Thanks!
I haven't read the book, but i'd guess that that's because sula is the "nightshade", the uncommon, and the one most people identify as the life they wanted to have
If one of the central aims of the book is to remove the barriers between individuality and the norm, bringing to light the issue of binary thinking why would the nightshade be the title. Clearly the author was not interested in portraying an example of the wonderful life of sula or the sad life of sula or even simply the life of sula. Perhaps such questions could be raised if one were to change the book's title to nel. It is a rather interesting thought that i am sure could inspire many a lengthy debate however i do not think you're arbitary answer will fit as clearly the life of the blackberry had its own share of poison.
Marco Onyxheart Correct me if I'm wrong but Alexandre Dumas was 1/4 black basically making him a "person of color" & Monte Cristo was based on his half black former slave father turned general Thomas- Alexandre Dumas.
You know John, you guys always time these so well. Be it something small like in release it as I'm about to eat lunch or when I'm at a personal crossroads or turning point and need a certain book to help me sort things out. Good job, and thank you.
Also the contrast of light and dark... sounds like it would be so fun to make an RPG game where this concepts are portrayed in the opposite way than modern society does. You find shelter and knowledge and friendship in darkness and evil lurking in the light.
I've been waiting for thus video so anxiously! I really have to doff my cap to the Crash Course team: this has been perhaps your best video yet, and I think novels of this length really suit your format. The way you repeatedly built upon and reinforced the main thematic metaphor of nightshade and blackberry was incredibly satisfying and elegantly done, and John, even more so than usual, presents the material with nuance and passion. Thanks so much for making this video about one of my favourite novels from one of my favourite authors and showing how much you care about the source material. Dftba
Waiting for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, or Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. Or some of Stephen King or a video on H.P. Lovecraft. Because yeah, Lovecraft may have lived and wrote in times where racism was a lot more accepted, but his distinct concept of storytelling and unique perspective on the importance of where we stood in the universe broke open the dam for a LOT of writers in the 20th century and even now, and in practically EVERY genre as well as horror.
I know this is likely not going to be seen, but a crash course on The Importance of Being Earnest would be amazing (for me, I don't know about others)!
A good billboard for a book that is often overlooked. May I recommend that next time you do Crash Course Literature, you focus on more overlooked titles.
Which novel would be the best place to start with Morrison? I've only read "Song of Solomon" and unfortunately didn't enjoy it (probably due to a terrible professor) but would like to give her another go.
I know it really isn't what literature classes are generally about, but I'd like to see discussions on modern books. I mean I would love fantasy novels, but I know they don't always carry the strong themes and subtle messages to address in videos like this, but even books like "We Were Liars" or "Belzhar" or "We All Looked Up" which have very contemporary twists and thoughts on the human condition today
I read this book senior year with the rest of my class it probably hit me differently bc I'm mostly white but I love the complex story line and characters I went out and bought a copy because it is one of my favorite books
I used to think this book was either boring or too intense, but always pointless. I have come to realize from this video that I was extremely wrong for the normal and flawed reasons, like binary thinking.
I have an intrigue on seeing things, not in black and white, but a greyish gloop. It's a perspective which allows you to see what may be hidden to the rest of the world.
Guess what, John? This WAS taught in my high school! Of course, the book was taught in a college-level class in my school, so I suppose you would have to take that into account.
Know what would help free people from the constraints of binary thinking and other language related pitfalls? Answer, knowledge of the systems surrounding their expressible perception of the world. How could they gain this understanding? Why through an entire Crash Course series on linguistics of course!! Hint. Hint. Please.
I really enjoy these episodes, as a lover of literature, it's always nice to have things like this, and I usually enjoy your videos. However, I have to disagree with you on something, specifically what you said about "binary language". It may just be my nature as a poet, but even still I've never had this "one dominates the other" with binary language. Light isn't always good, dark isn't always bad. Shade is dark, and is soothing and calming. The sun, the embodiment of light in many ways, can be harsh and blistering. There is a balance to the two and to all opposites in language, at least all that I have looked into. Still, best wishes.
I think he talks about that in the video though. He mentions that to assume that the binary language is correct is folly since each option can be inherently complex, as you pointed out. Still, he's not wrong in suggesting that the typical associations with one choice tend to dominate and dictate the shape of the other. Hence his stating that light's association with truth logically implies that it's opposite (dark) is associated with confusion, even though the association of confusion may not always apply to the dark, and the same goes for the light. He says all this in the 3:21.
Hail Sagan YES the point of the video was to show that, but the point of my comment was that I had never HEARD or seen anything like what he was describing with one dominating the other. My issue isn't with the conclusion, its with the hypothesis.
I loved this video. It helped me get more out of the book than I would have otherwise, and I think that the animation was especially engaging and easy to follow! (Better pacing than usual - normally some of it goes too fast for me to take in.)
This was a challenging book to me. I still do not understand Shadrack. What was he supposed to be? And why did everyone have to die in the tunnel, but then Shadrack didn't?
I read Sula for an English Foreign Language class I had to take in high school in France (the logic was that I'd learn French there while the others learned English). I've since discovered that while I love Toni Morrison's books, I can only spend about 30mins reading them at a time, because they're so emotionally and descriptively intense that otherwise I can't emerge back into the real world for hours, even days.
EmmaK facts sis. they’re great but they get you in the emotions
John please continue to talk about african american literature and even other minorities as this is the only place I know at least that talks about these wonderful books by amazing authors on such a big scale that is accessible for different people of all races. I know black blog posts and reviewers that talk about african american and african literature but because of how small they are many people dont know them.
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You are aware he has done more books that have white authors than black right? Seems you are just bitter that u see some minority in a sea of the majority.
More black literature please, I'd love to hear your analysis of The Bluest Eye, The Colour Purple, or I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.
As someone who uses crash course a lot in their classes and watches almost all of them, I think this is perhaps one of the best ones that they have produced.
I can never understand why people hate talking about these themes so much that they label everything "SJW". Why are people so regressive and slimy? What it wrong with these people? How can they live so closemindedly? I remember being like that when I was a little kid, and I'm glad I grew out of that.
***** I was raised as one of those terrifying christian wingnuts that thought you were going to hell for everything, even though my parents didn't want that. A combination of my rebellious teenage years, and my excessive empathy (it's even hard for me to hurt or kill things like bugs, spiders, and other pests) made me develop rules for myself that's probably saved me more than any religion. As for how long it took? God, years, and even then I was already hypersensitive to the pain and emotions of other people as a kid. Short answer, I don't really know, and I'm sorry I can't give a better answer :'0
***** I bet they would have complained anyway... but you're right, I think. I actually like hearing about these kinds of stories and I'm already getting sick of them. There are so many books with so many themes! I realize this is important but if you make something a chore, even a good thing, no one's going to want to sit through it.
***** No, I mean I wasn't arguing. They've been pretty anvilicious, I'm agreeing that focusing on entirely one theme for the entire season irritated people justly, regardless of what it was.
Calling someone SJW is pretty much the same (dumb) tactic that lefties uses with the world "racist" but SWJ is used by the right wing, pretty much it means nothing (or just what the speaker wants it to mean). I'm pretty sure that if I say that black people have the same rights of everybody else I will be labeled as SWJ/socialist/comunist/marxist etc. Of course is completely ridiculous!
LittleLion93 There was this one person on the internet I talked to (it was years ago so I don't have a source) that I literally asked what his opinions were, and it was all pro-feminist stuff, but when I said "Oh, so you're feminist" he like fukkin hissed like a wild animal, so mad at me it was like I set his dog on fire. People get so worked up about just the names of these things, it's so hard just to talk about it without wildly misunderstanding people.
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_"Why, then, ’tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."_
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If you are watching this video, you are a beautiful person and have an amazing day 😊😊😊
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I had to read Sula for a LIT class in college, and it's definitely a good read. It's one of those books that makes you want to keep reading just to see what happens next.
I had never heard of this book, but now I'm interested in reading it. Thank you for sharing your critical observations with the world.
What a coincidence! I JUST finished reading this for pleasure last week! I knew that there was a lot of depth that I wasn't picking up on - thanks!!
This made me so happy
Thanks for covering this amazing book John Green. I don't understand why people have a hard time regarding books about the experiences of marginalized people to be "progressive". It is literally a look into the lives of characters who represent real people in our society, but don't get enough attention by mainstream literature. For those calling for a focus more "classical" approach to the conservative literature--I say that I'm sure that those books are the typical reading list in American schools. And who is to determine what is and what isn't "classic literature"? Toni Morrison is a phenomenal writer and it just shows how we need to open up the definition of critical ly acclaimed literature. It should come in all forms amd representation. Diversity of characters, opinions, and story lines are valid.
Crash course sociology would be amazing right now!!!
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I've been itching for "Crash Course Religion" (less a-propos to this video, but still, I know nothing about religions and wish I did)
I'd watch CC Sociology.
There's a great couple of courses from the YaleCourses youtube on academic approaches to the Bible. Really worth the watch. It goes over various approaches to biblical criticism, from a generally academic "Let's study this religion in a fairly unbiased way" point of view. They come highly recommended from me at least.
There's a great couple of courses from the YaleCourses youtube on academic approaches to the Bible. Really worth the watch. It goes over various approaches to biblical criticism, from a generally academic "Let's study this religion in a fairly unbiased way" point of view. They come highly recommended from me at least.
I just read this book. beautiful. poetic.
I did not know of this story before, but the title peaked my interest... You see, I am Honduran, born and raised, and my hometown is called San Pedro Sula and it is located in Sula Valley...
This was a magnificent video. A thoroughly compelling reading, masterfully communicated.
So now begins the long cold winter of not seeing John Green's face on Crash Course.
He just said they're doing Crash Course Geography! Or is that not going to be John? IT BETTER BE JOHN.
“Troubled and triumphant, weak and strong.” The analysis of how Morrison troubles binaries in this text is great!
Wow 😲 I have read Sula but what you just said blowed my mind and changed the why I would be looking to the book completely just brilliant
Another brilliant video, thanks Hank and the team!
I read the Bluest Eye and it's amazing
I can't believe this is the last episode for literature (for now)... :((
Thank you! This is one of my favorite books. I appreciate your thought-provoking reviews.
crash course mathematics is kind of a dream of mine... It would truly be a life saver for me (and many other I assume).
Mathilde Hasselstrøm It wouldn't work, it would extremely cumbersome and confusing. It doesn't fit for a 10 minutes youtube video, people wouldn't understand shi*. CC Physics is being already hard to swallow in for most of viewers.
If your objective is learn mathematics, you should be making exercises and train your brain to think abstractly and not watch youtube videos speaking superficially about it. Math is not like history or geography in which you just decorate a lot of information. Just through a lot of training and exercises you're gonna learn it...
Sula was one of the required readings of writing 39 series @ UC Irvine a long time ago circa year 2000.
As a person who works in Urban and Regional Planning and studied International Affairs, Geography is an underrated social science.
Can you add to this series ? I just started reading Sula after reading Toni’s “the Bluest Eye” and I never would’ve known about half the other books in this series or even read them if I hadn’t come across your channel
IF there will a fourth season of CC Lit. May i suggest some novels that i think would be interesting and also helpful to highschoolers out there.
-Fahrenheit 451
-A brave new world
- One flew over the cuckoo's nest
- 1984
- catch - 22
Complexity is always a difficult subject for me to grasp.
Simplicity is even harder
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If both are hard, what do we grasp at on a normal basis?
sion8 misconceptions
it's like looking at a blurry object
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Ok, I guess.
Wow, this was AMAZING!! I've read Sula at least 5 times, and listened to the audio book even more. This put into words all the complexities within the novel in a very accessible way. Thanks!
This came at the perfect time, thank you 😭😭❤️
I just thought while listening to what John said about 'undervalued identities', while nightshade is primarily known as poisonous, the poisonous ingredient in those berries - atropine - in small quantities is used as an antidote to some neurotoxins due to its quality of being a muscle relaxant. I wonder if that 'undervalued identity' of the nightshade was also implied?
We read The Bluest Eye :) the older I get the more I appreciate my high school English teacher
Thanks John, that was really great, I need to put that book on my reading list. Exploring how we can all to easily create false dichotomies and bin things into X or Y is important. It's within the continuum between X and Y that life happens and flourishes. :) Hope you do a 4th season of CC:Literature!
Really hope we can see a new season of Crash Course Literature soon =) Amazing stuff, people! Thank you so much!
Sula is an incredible novel. Glad to see it in crash course :-)
Crash Course Literature continues to be one of my most favorite things on this channel and UA-cam in general. I love and respect the amount of attention and enthusiasm John gives to authors of color, specifically Toni Morrison. Thank you John. Do you take requests?
I too would like it if the works of more Asian authors were covered in this course. To be fair though, the majority of the works covered so far in this series have been from white authors or authors of European descent. Not that there is anything wrong with that, (some of my favorite books are by white authors) but its disingenuous to suggest that John has covered (practically) only black people as a literary subject. You should check out some of the other videos, they're all great!
Oh, I understand very well what you mean, but let's break it down...
In season 1, of the 4 works featured, not one was by or about black people. In season 2, of the 10 or so works featured, only 2 were by black authors and the other 1 that featured black characters was by a white author.
This season only had 7 or so featured works and only 5 of them talked about race, 1 of which was written by a white author and the other which didn't even feature black people (if memory serves).
So while I agree that there haven't been as many diverse authors as I would like to see, it hardly makes a disparity. If ANYTHING it's a disparity toward white "literary subjects".
+gigaman6 Your stats are almost spot on. Though I wouldn't say they favour either side over the whole series. This season did focus heavily on the black side, which was a bit odd, but not entirely unexpected, so I can see both sides of the argument. However. While race plays heavily into these novels I feel like they have underlying themes and motifs that are just as important if not more important to discuss.
Aaay, dat Overwatch. I'm a simple man; the simple things please me.
Hello Crash Course
You help me with school.
These videos are easy to understand.
Thank you for making this channel.
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I might just be Overwatch trash, but for me, that made the entire episode even better
The analysis in this is just fantastic!
You gave a sterling explanation of Sula. I read that book, and I never thought of it in this way before. I actually wish I had watched this video BEFORE reading the book. I would have understood it much better. Thanks!
But in the end, she did choose one over the other. It is called Sula, not Nel and Sula. I always found that choice intriguing.
I haven't read the book, but i'd guess that that's because sula is the "nightshade", the uncommon, and the one most people identify as the life they wanted to have
If one of the central aims of the book is to remove the barriers between individuality and the norm, bringing to light the issue of binary thinking why would the nightshade be the title. Clearly the author was not interested in portraying an example of the wonderful life of sula or the sad life of sula or even simply the life of sula. Perhaps such questions could be raised if one were to change the book's title to nel. It is a rather interesting thought that i am sure could inspire many a lengthy debate however i do not think you're arbitary answer will fit as clearly the life of the blackberry had its own share of poison.
i just want to know why Nel doesn't seem to angry at sula for having affairs with her husband ( based on the video. i did not reat it yet)
Near Darkroad It was a smaller detail but Nel was definitely angry.
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Thanks John and CrashCourse team! Looking forward to the next mini-series of Literature.
Next season: The Count of Monte Cristo, Utopia, and Paradise Lost. Please!!!!!
nah they wont use those. theyll keep doing SJW works
Yeah..... Sylvia Plath, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Hamlet, The Odyssey, Romeo and Juliet, Emily Dickinson... So much racism. Much black people.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but Alexandre Dumas was 1/4 black basically making him a "person of color" & Monte Cristo was based on his half black former slave father turned general Thomas- Alexandre Dumas.
You know John, you guys always time these so well. Be it something small like in release it as I'm about to eat lunch or when I'm at a personal crossroads or turning point and need a certain book to help me sort things out. Good job, and thank you.
Also the contrast of light and dark... sounds like it would be so fun to make an RPG game where this concepts are portrayed in the opposite way than modern society does. You find shelter and knowledge and friendship in darkness and evil lurking in the light.
remember while scrolling through the comments DON'T FEED THE TROLLS!
I wish this was still going, he never got to Flannery O'Connor
I actually read this in high school. Your review just made me realize I never forgot it.
I've been waiting for thus video so anxiously!
I really have to doff my cap to the Crash Course team: this has been perhaps your best video yet, and I think novels of this length really suit your format. The way you repeatedly built upon and reinforced the main thematic metaphor of nightshade and blackberry was incredibly satisfying and elegantly done, and John, even more so than usual, presents the material with nuance and passion.
Thanks so much for making this video about one of my favourite novels from one of my favourite authors and showing how much you care about the source material. Dftba
I've always enjoyed this book and it's nice to hear an analysis on it from an author.
I love this message. People are more complex than simple binaries.
I'd never wanted to read a book so much after a review than this one.
This is so good.
hey crash course
please make courses on
ART, ARCHITECTURE and their HISTORY
I feel so lucky! I read Sula in High School Lit. And I totally agree it should be the go to book instead of Lord of the Flies.
Awesomeness Thankyou John and The Lovely People 😸
Waiting for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, or Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. Or some of Stephen King or a video on H.P. Lovecraft. Because yeah, Lovecraft may have lived and wrote in times where racism was a lot more accepted, but his distinct concept of storytelling and unique perspective on the importance of where we stood in the universe broke open the dam for a LOT of writers in the 20th century and even now, and in practically EVERY genre as well as horror.
so no one gonna talk about the amazing overwatch reference? 3:02
I Am reading Sula in my high school English class!! and it is one of the weirdest and most interesting books i have read in an English class
We actually did read Sula in my high school English class! Although, we read Lord of the Flies too
Please do a Sociology and an Art History crash course!!!! I'd love that!
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I know this is likely not going to be seen, but a crash course on The Importance of Being Earnest would be amazing (for me, I don't know about others)!
A good billboard for a book that is often overlooked. May I recommend that next time you do Crash Course Literature, you focus on more overlooked titles.
RIP Toni Morrison
finally! I have been waiting all week!!!
Which novel would be the best place to start with Morrison? I've only read "Song of Solomon" and unfortunately didn't enjoy it (probably due to a terrible professor) but would like to give her another go.
Read this novel, Sula. The video is a good starting place, but there's still plenty in the novel to experience.
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Sula is a good one I think.
I am so happy someone shares my opinion of LOTF.
Thoroughly impressed by the content, as well as the sneaky Overwatch reference. Thanks CrashCourse.
I know it really isn't what literature classes are generally about, but I'd like to see discussions on modern books. I mean I would love fantasy novels, but I know they don't always carry the strong themes and subtle messages to address in videos like this, but even books like "We Were Liars" or "Belzhar" or "We All Looked Up" which have very contemporary twists and thoughts on the human condition today
This really helped. I’m reading this book rn for English
Can you please do an episode on Tolstoy (cover Anna Karenina and/or War and Peace)?
Loved the series, thank you very much!
Brilliant !!! Thank you I do value crash courses much appreciated !!
Last time i was this early, Harambe was still alive
RIP, angel, gone too soon
I read this book senior year with the rest of my class it probably hit me differently bc I'm mostly white but I love the complex story line and characters I went out and bought a copy because it is one of my favorite books
I don't typically watch CC literature but the video thumbnails was just too cool!
What about doing the Iliad?
Yay! I love crash course!! Literature and psychology are my favorites!!! :)
I used to think this book was either boring or too intense, but always pointless. I have come to realize from this video that I was extremely wrong for the normal and flawed reasons, like binary thinking.
MAKE MORE OF THESE!!!!
Might be my favorite episode by far.
I have an intrigue on seeing things, not in black and white, but a greyish gloop. It's a perspective which allows you to see what may be hidden to the rest of the world.
Ill miss the literature mini series. Hope you decide to do more at a later time.
Thanks. This video was amazing.
I love the Good or evil comparison, using Mercy and Reaper of all characters XD
Happy when john acknowledges nonbinary folks ^-^ watching this on TDoV!
Guess what, John? This WAS taught in my high school! Of course, the book was taught in a college-level class in my school, so I suppose you would have to take that into account.
I love this series
I can't wait to read this book. It sounds wondrous.
Do "Heart of Darkness"!
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Know what would help free people from the constraints of binary thinking and other language related pitfalls? Answer, knowledge of the systems surrounding their expressible perception of the world. How could they gain this understanding? Why through an entire Crash Course series on linguistics of course!! Hint. Hint. Please.
I really enjoy these episodes, as a lover of literature, it's always nice to have things like this, and I usually enjoy your videos. However, I have to disagree with you on something, specifically what you said about "binary language". It may just be my nature as a poet, but even still I've never had this "one dominates the other" with binary language. Light isn't always good, dark isn't always bad. Shade is dark, and is soothing and calming. The sun, the embodiment of light in many ways, can be harsh and blistering. There is a balance to the two and to all opposites in language, at least all that I have looked into. Still, best wishes.
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I think he talks about that in the video though. He mentions that to assume that the binary language is correct is folly since each option can be inherently complex, as you pointed out. Still, he's not wrong in suggesting that the typical associations with one choice tend to dominate and dictate the shape of the other. Hence his stating that light's association with truth logically implies that it's opposite (dark) is associated with confusion, even though the association of confusion may not always apply to the dark, and the same goes for the light. He says all this in the 3:21.
The ENTIRE point of the video was showing that things aren't binary.
Hail Sagan YES the point of the video was to show that, but the point of my comment was that I had never HEARD or seen anything like what he was describing with one dominating the other. My issue isn't with the conclusion, its with the hypothesis.
Same. I never heard or seen anything like that either. May I ask, how old are you?
Brilliant video. Thank you.
I loved this video. It helped me get more out of the book than I would have otherwise, and I think that the animation was especially engaging and easy to follow! (Better pacing than usual - normally some of it goes too fast for me to take in.)
This is really a interesting novel. This book is a part of our syllabus and i jst lvd it
YES! OVERWATCH REFERENCE!!!!
He murdered this analysis
This was a challenging book to me. I still do not understand Shadrack. What was he supposed to be? And why did everyone have to die in the tunnel, but then Shadrack didn't?