Moby-Dick (I)

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  • @masonlang6933
    @masonlang6933 9 років тому +22

    I would enjoy having this man as a teacher.

    • @joanyoon4672
      @joanyoon4672 4 роки тому +1

      Calvinism is definitely not of God. If it were, God would have predicted that it would be used to found white supremacy with the risk of depriving a great teacher such as the professor we are enjoying through this video.

  • @Savorist
    @Savorist 14 років тому +5

    I like to think that there is no one in the classroom and he's talking to himself.
    And those who teach CAN do. They inspire thousands of minds. That's a great talent.

  • @joanyoon4672
    @joanyoon4672 4 роки тому +7

    Thanks to NYU and the likes of the professor, I get to enjoy the class I was not privileged to attend.

  • @kostisgreece
    @kostisgreece 10 років тому +9

    paralipsis - 'it is not for me to comment on the abysmal performance of my successor'(M Thatcher on her successor John Major)

  • @lighttakesthetree
    @lighttakesthetree 10 років тому +19

    At approximately 43:00 I think he misinterprets Melville's metaphor "to cook up." It's not a domestic reference, it's a reference to "Breaking Bad"; actually it's a reference to the industry that occurred on whaling ships (described - by the way - in the novel "Moby Dick") as the whale blubber would be "cooked up," boiled in order to render the valuable oil.

    • @bolosweet
      @bolosweet 4 роки тому +3

      I think you missed the point, he’s not denying the blubber cooking , he’s just saying how Melville distorted the domesticity that was popular in those days with his own “ungainly” version. One of the reasons why he was a great writer.

  • @1cathexis
    @1cathexis 8 років тому +11

    Here it is 2016 & I'm just stumbling on this. Thanks for posting. I love finding professional college-level lectures on-line here.Pay no attention to the naysayers. But it would be great if you could post a link to your syllabus & reading material. I'm not even sure what edition of MD you're using though I could guess Library of America perhaps?

    • @rockyyan5938
      @rockyyan5938 7 місяців тому

      What did you find? Care to share? Thanks

    • @1cathexis
      @1cathexis 7 місяців тому

      @@rockyyan5938 If you mean Peer-level lectures on various topics there are various sources some Uni. put out so it would depend on the actual topic. A great example is Gresham College, Eng. They have a YT channel that goes back years and has dozens of high-level lectures on many topics. Another fav of mine is the former Chicago Oriental Studies Institute, now known as Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures. If you mean lecture notes - I got no reply.

    • @rockyyan5938
      @rockyyan5938 7 місяців тому +1

      @@1cathexis Many Thanks!

  • @HydropolisCity
    @HydropolisCity 13 років тому +7

    0:26:38 skip to Moby Dick, pass the literary analysis section, if you want.

    • @TickTackSack
      @TickTackSack 5 років тому

      Cuttin corners there are you, as told to do.

  • @ultraparadoxical7610
    @ultraparadoxical7610 3 місяці тому

    Kinda shocking that NYU would post this on its channel without crediting the lecturer. Or am I missing it?!

  • @riverIl0719
    @riverIl0719 3 роки тому +2

    *Is there more of his teaching on UA-cam?*

  • @Richard.HistoryLit
    @Richard.HistoryLit Рік тому

    One of the things that is just simply wrong is the "Because it is theirs...' line made in reference to landing a whale in port and which apparently automatically becomes the property of the King of England. But this is indeed a wilful corruption and deceit of the facts of the matter. If I may: 'A charter granted to Hilary, Bishop of Chichester in 1148 gave him the right to “any whale found on the land of the church of Chichester, except the tongue, which is the King's.”[3] The English king had asserted the right to the entire whale by 1315 when Edward II reserved “to himself the right of all whales cast by chance upon the shore.” [4] Whales came to be known as “Royal fish”, the disposal of which was an exclusive right of the monarch, or his local representative.[5] Indeed, to this day, the Crown Estate asserts that "theoretically The king can claim ownership" of beached whales and other "Royal fish".' Less of the anti-British prejudice and propaganda if you please!

  • @tsogtsaikhanjambal4668
    @tsogtsaikhanjambal4668 8 років тому +2

    Where it's lecture transcript? I like these lessons. Thank you.

  • @MattPowersSoil
    @MattPowersSoil 3 роки тому

    Looking good Patell!!

  • @TheCrishek
    @TheCrishek 2 роки тому

    if his chest had been a canon, he would have shot his heart apon it. did a fuse not go off?

  • @derwolfpack3599
    @derwolfpack3599 2 роки тому +1

    Where do murderers go man, when the judge is dragged before the bar?

  • @LearnerChess
    @LearnerChess 13 років тому +2

    I think you're doing a fine job. Don't let the people who are taking knit-picky potshots at you, bother you.

  • @tattoofthesun
    @tattoofthesun 3 роки тому

    That was FANtastic!!!

  • @MarthaDelios
    @MarthaDelios 13 років тому +1

    There's a problem with the rendering of the names of the rhetorical tropes(or strategies) to which the speaker is referring at the beginning of the lecture:
    0:00:59 (et seq.), the Greek word is spelt apophasis (not apophysis, not apophasia); the Latin word is spelt 'occultatio'; and the other term for personification is prosopopoeia.

    • @bm4114
      @bm4114 2 роки тому +3

      It’s been ten years since you made this comment, have you gotten over yourself?

    • @Liliquan
      @Liliquan 2 роки тому

      @@bm4114 lol.

  • @terileekline
    @terileekline Рік тому

    Excellent lecture

  • @TheCrishek
    @TheCrishek 2 роки тому +1

    I loved Moby Dick... I thought he was a responsible captain with a responsible crew... in those days, the whaling fleet could be an extension of the navy if need be... if Ahab was given a mission sworn to secrecy, and if he requested an inexperienced crew... and the description of the whale doesn't seem very whale like. he went down with his mission, and trying to save his crew

    • @Liliquan
      @Liliquan 2 роки тому +3

      Jesus, that was a messed up interpretation if i’ve ever seen one.

  • @MarthaDelios
    @MarthaDelios 13 років тому

    Also, paralipsis (it's actually on the screen), also paraleipsis ; proslepsis

  • @jakealden2517
    @jakealden2517 5 років тому

    Wonder how many of his students actually read the book. They could just get a sentence from spark notes and present it as their answer.

    • @murphythedog1637
      @murphythedog1637 4 роки тому

      I just watched the movie..........got an A+. : )

  • @jmichaelortiz
    @jmichaelortiz 4 роки тому +1

    What? Melville joined the US Navy, wasn't in a brig! Sailed on the USS United States: "In August, 1843, Melville enlisted in the US Navy and embarked on the final leg of his journey, working as a seaman on the Navy ship United States through the Pacific. In October 1844, Melville returned to his mother's house determined to write about his adventures." PBS, American Experience.

    • @michelmcbride
      @michelmcbride Рік тому

      "Brig" in this context refers to a two-masted ship, not a naval jail. But he's still incorrect, because the USS United States was three-masted. It's just a minor mistake, not the one you think he made.

  • @titicoqui
    @titicoqui 9 років тому

    truly excellent

  • @greenteacupproductions96
    @greenteacupproductions96 3 роки тому

    great lecture who is this?

  • @mov999
    @mov999 14 років тому

    no no no , give you something to think about. dont just negate it. Makes me want
    to listen to GZA.

  • @HydropolisCity
    @HydropolisCity 13 років тому

    @HydropolisCity 26:38

  • @noshyosh
    @noshyosh 13 років тому

    brilliant...talks a bit too fast though.

  • @RawandCookedVegan
    @RawandCookedVegan 2 роки тому

    Wow, you ain't gonna get this at a community college.

  • @barrenground
    @barrenground 14 років тому +2

    @TheFaustianMan Those who can't think, or write anything original, use cliches.

  • @wbiro
    @wbiro 11 років тому

    and those who think they can but can't, can't learn or teach...

  • @christinacascadilla4473
    @christinacascadilla4473 Рік тому

    I must have gotten dumber since college.

  • @mov999
    @mov999 14 років тому

    no no no , give you something to think about. dont just negate it.

  • @murphythedog1637
    @murphythedog1637 4 роки тому

    So Many words I never herd before, would be better if he talk english. paralipsis, A figure of speech in which one pretends to ignore or omit something by actually mentioning it.

  • @Pentapus1024
    @Pentapus1024 8 років тому

    This dude looks like colombo in the thumbnail. Sort yourself out, sir. You're no Peter Falk.

  • @tattoofthesun
    @tattoofthesun 3 роки тому

    That was fathastic

  • @TheFaustianMan
    @TheFaustianMan 14 років тому +1

    Those who can do, those who can't teach.

    • @RawandCookedVegan
      @RawandCookedVegan 2 роки тому +3

      Teaching is perhaps the noblest profession and it is why you're able to write your comment.

    • @ElonMuskrat-my8jy
      @ElonMuskrat-my8jy 9 місяців тому

      ​@@RawandCookedVegan🤡