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lawyers and
literature
a video (and audio) tour of a course of reading
An Introduction to "Lawyers and Literature
Drawing on the Work of Jordan Peterson
Read, Become Articulate,
Transform the World [4:51 mins.] [Jordan Peterson]
Jordan Peterson
on Fictional Truth [7:48 mins.]
The
Buddha's Renunciation [11:11 mins.] [the Buddha
story; "looking beyond the confines" of protected space/protected
lives; curiosity that has you looking for trouble; getting beyond the
confines of paradise]
Re-Reading the Course Through Videos
Three Premises: Reading|Stories|The Course
Roger Schank:
Learning by Doing [1:31 mins.]
How to Get Out
of the Box [13:38 mins.] [Giovanni Corazza, professor
at the Alma Mater Studiorum at the University of Bologna, teaches
science and the applications of creative thinking]
Honoring
the Stories of Illness: Dr. Rita Charon [18:16
mins.] [Dr. Rita Charon is recognized as one of the founders and leaders
of narrative medicine]
On Reading
Reading and
the Good Life [4:04 mins.]
Why We Read:
Francine Prose [9:54 mins.] Pt2
[9:32mins.] Pt3
[9:51 mins.] Pt4
[7:57 mins.] Pt5
[11:37 mins.] Big
Think Interview With Francine Prose [31:53 mins.]
How We Read?
Salman
Rushdie on Reading [5:35 mins.]
Reading Short
Stories [5:23 mins.] [Peter Kittle, Professor
of English, California State University--Chico]
Name
It & Tame It [1:36 mins.] Left
Brain Storytelling [1:36 mins.]
Reading the Characters We Find in Fiction
Salman
Rushdie on Lives of Fictional Characters [4:05
mins.]
Salman Rushdie
on Truth in Fiction [3:14 mins.]
Michael
Blumenthal on the Characters We Find in Literature [3:45
mins.]
Thinking About Reading & Literature
David
Foster Wallace on Literature [2:52 mins.]
David Foster
Wallace on Commercial Literature and Reading [4:19
mins.]
Kurt Vonnegut
Interviewed on Reading [6:58 mins.] Pt2
[11:06 mins.] Pt3
[6:12 mins.] Pt4
[7:01 mins.]
Harold
Bloom interviewed by Brian Lamb, CSpan [9:37 mins.]
Pt2
[9:14 mins.] Pt3
[7:54 mins.] Pt4
[9:46 mins.] Pt5
[4:42 mins.] Pt6
[3:50 mins.]
The Neurology
of Reading [3:31 mins.] [Margaret Atwood]
Martha
Nussbaum with Bill Moyers: The Fragility of Humanity [5:48
mins.]
Poets and Prose
Writing [6:01 mins.] [Edward Hirsch] [full
interview :: 34:33 mins.]
Why Robert
Stone Writes [3:34 mins.] ["You need stories."]
Stories
Read and Lived [5:04 mins.] [Robert Stone talks
about his early life as a reader; readering whatever he blunders into]
[full
interview :: 39:00 mins.] On
Short Stories: A Writer Tries "I" [5:48
mins.]
Tom Perrotta
on Becoming a Writer [5:16 mins.]
Iris Murdoch
on Philosophy and Literature [10:18 mins.]
An
NPR Report on a Study in Science [4:05
mins.] [audio; "All Things Considered"]
Fiction, Literature, the Humanities
How Fiction
Makes Our Brains Better [3:06 mins.]
The Role of
Fiction in the Well-Lived Life [9:11 mins.] [Professor
Joshua Landy, co-director of the Literature and Philosophy Initiative
at Stanford, talks about his current research on the role that fiction
plays in the well-lived life.]
David Foster
Wallace: The Future of Fiction in the Information Age [4:13
mins.]
In the Defense
of the Humanities [6:16 mins.] [Professor Joshua
Landy, co-director of Stanford's Philosophy
and Literature Initiative]
Iris Murdoch
on Philosophy and Literature [10:18 mins.] Pt2
[10:40 mins.] Pt4
[8:51 mins.] Pt5
[4:49 mins.]
The Death of
Criticism? [1:09:57 mins.] [Terry Eagleton] [Eagleton's
lecture begins at 4:30 mins.]
From The Anxiety
to the Anatomy of Influence: A Conversation with Harold Bloom
[1:19:32 mins.]
Why Read Literature? An Examined|Meaningful Life
Why Read?
[56:55
mins.] [Mark Edmunson]
Sheldon
Solomon on Identity Crisis [2:55 mins.]
Does Fiction
Have a Practical Purpose? [4:08 mins.] [Rebecca
Goldstein]
Why Study English
Literature? [1:03 mins.] [Bo Ekelund, Stockholm
University]
Imagination and
Empathy [31.57
mins.] [Ken Robinson]
Sam
Keen on Minor Epiphanies [0:28 mins.]
Sam
Keen on the Meaning of Life [1:24 mins.] Sam
Keen on Life's Filters [3:30 mins.]
On Being Lost: Finding Ourselves in What We Read & Write
Sam
Keen on Being Lost [1:32 mins.] [On
Work] [1:38 mins.]
Michael Blumenthal
on Writing [7:34 mins.]
"Forgetfulness":
A Poem by Billy Collins [1:41 mins.]
On Fear
Karen
Thompson Walker: What Fear Can Teach Us [11:31
mins.]
Talking with Each Other About What We Read
Is There Truth
in Interpretation? Law, Literature and History [1:07:10
mins.; the lecture begins at 10:14 mins.] [a lecture by Ronald Dworkin]
Thinking About Stories and Storytelling
Stories in Our
Lives [59:41 mins.] [Dr.
Rachel Naomi Remen, an early pioneer in the mind/body holistic health
movement]["stories are about the
art of living"] [Dr. Remen is a physician]
This
World is Made of Stories [6:21
mins.] [Michael Meade]
On
Stories & Myth [5:39
mins.]
Jordan Peterson
on How You Inhabit a Story [14:15 mins.]
Salman Rushdie
on Mythology and Interpretation [5:44
mins.]
Kurt
Vonnegut: The Shapes of Stories [4:36
mins.]
Kurt
Vonnegut: How to Write a Short Story [1:28
mins.]
Roger
Schank on Stories [13:32
mins.] Pt2
[13:50
mins.] Pt3
[13:25]
Pt4
[8:39
mins.]
Idris
Shah, The Teaching Story [47:17 mins.] [audio]
Pt2
[47:04 mins.] [audio] Idris
Shah, Caravan of Dreams Stories [51:26 mins.]
[audio]
Nicole
Krauss: We Create Who We Are [26:16 mins.] ["I
go to books for serious things."]
Tobias
Wolff on Short Stories [2:28 mins.] Art
is Essential [28:29 mins.]
TED Talks|Stories
Stories Out
Loud: Bill Harley [13:36 mins.] Andrew
Stanton: The Clues to a Great
Story [19:16
mins.] The
Mystery of Storytelling: Julian Friedmann [18:28
mins.] The
Power of Story: Susan Conley [18:56 mins.]
The Transformative
Power Of Storytelling: Cheryl Hunter [15:24 mins.]
The
Power of Storytelling to Change the World: Dave Lieber [17:16
mins.] Sarah
Kay Poetess/Storyteller [12:33 mins.]
Patricia Evangelista:
Why We Tell Stories [14:40 mins.] Steve
Denning: Leadership Storytelling [15:50 mins.]
Todd
Babiak: Tell Me a Story [16:02 mins.]
Jeff Parkin:
The Future of Story [18:43 mins.] Jonny
White: Psychologically, We are our Stories [18:44
mins.] Narrative
Humility [17:40 mins.] [on how to listen to stories]
Narrative Medicine as a Way of Thinking about Narrative Jurisprudence
Rita
Charon in Conversation with Magdalene Brandeis
[1:20:21 mins.] [Dr. Charon's presentation begins
at 8:08 mins.]
Rita
Charon: A Sense of Story, or Narrative Medicine for the Chaos of Illness?
[1:21:17
mins.] Narrative
Methods of Building Effective Health Care Teams [51:23
mins.]
Narrative Humility:
Sayantani DasGupta at TED [17:40
mins.]
Dr
Oliver Sacks: Narrative and Medicine: The Importance of the Case History
[40:59 mins.]
The Lawyer as Storyteller
Storytelling,
Persuasion, Narrative [12:33
mins.] [Charles Rose]
Opening
Statements and Storytelling [13:39 mins.] [Professor
Wes Porter, Director of the GGU Litigation Center at Golden Gate University
School of Law in San Francisco
Speaking & Participating in Class
How to Lose the
Fear of Being an Idiot [4:36 mins.] [School of Life]
How to Know If
Someone's Ideas Are Their Own [2:59 mins.] [Jordan
Peterson]
How to Write
and Verbalize Your Thoughts [2:03 mins.] [Jordan
Peterson]
Skillful vs Unskillful
Discussion [5:46 mins.] [Jordan Peterson] [end presentation
at 1:18 mins.]
On Writing (Jordan Peterson)
On the Power
of Writing [4:04 mins.]
Self Authoring
[9:49 mins.]
Intro to Self
Authoring [8:47 mins.]
Self Authoring:
It Changes You! [18:10 mins.]
Introduction to Writing an English Essay
Introduction
[2:15 mins.] Paraphrasing
[6:53 mins.]
Methodology: An Introduction to Literary Theory
[16:45 mins.] A
Close Reading [13:24 mins.] The
Historical Background [16:55 mins.] Aesthetics
[12:55 mins.] Ecocriticism
[12:45 mins.] Introduction
to Marxist Literary Theory [16:23 mins.]
Literary Interpretation & Theory
A Literary Theory Course [Paul Frey, Yale]
Introduction
to Theory of Literature - Introduction-II
-
Ways In and Out of the Hermeneutic Circle - Configurative
Reading - The
Idea of the Autonomous Artwork - The
New Criticism and Other Western Formalisms - Russian
Formalism - : Semiotics
and Structuralism - Linguistics
and Literature - Deconstruction
- Deconstruction-II
- Freud
and Fiction - Jacque
Lacan in Theory - Influence
(Harold Bloom) - The
Postmodern Psyche - The
Social Permeability of Reader and Text - The
Frankfurt School of Critical Theory - The
Political Unconscious - The
New Historicism - The
Classical Feminist Tradition - African
American Criticism - Post-Colonial
Criticism - Queer
Theory - The
Institutional Construction of Literary Study - The
End of Theory? -
Reflections; Who Doesn't Hate Theory Now
How to Read Literature:
Four Angles of Interpretation [9:40 mins.] [Nick
Courtright]
Introduction
to Marxist Literary Theory [16:23 mins.]
Course Authors | Course Stories
Kafka's "Before the Law"
"Before
the Law" [2:56 mins.] [Orson Wells narration]
Alon
Levi Film Adaptation of the Parable [8:56 mins.]
Franz
Kafka Mini Documentary [5:33 mins.]
David Foster
Wallace on Kafka [9:28 mins.]
Lowell B. Komie, a Lawyer/Writer and His Stories
Investidura
[10:22 mins.] Celebrating
the Uruguayan Debut of Lowell B. Komie's short stories
[2:09 mins.] Lowell
Komie Talking About a Trip to The Netherlands [3:23
mins.] Komie
Talking About Paris & Amerstdam [3:42 mins.]
Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
Bartleby:
Eine Geschichte der Wall Street [10:00 mins.]
Experimentalfilm von Andreas Honneth, 2009
Bartleby,
the Subversive [3:28 mins.]
Leslie Hall Pinder, On Double Tracks
Leslie Hall Pinder
Interview [14:46 mins.] Pt2
[6:13 mins.] Pt3
[7:40 mins.] [discussing her book, Bring Me One of Everything]
Block
Party
[8:36 mins.] [An imaginative video about writer's block]
Book Trailer
for Bring Me One of Everything [1:34
mins.]
Leslie
Hall Pinder Reading from Bring Me One of Everything [6:36
mins.]
Margaret Atwood, "Weight"
Turning
Pages: The Life and Literature of Margaret Atwood
[3:21 mins.]
Margaret
Atwood on the Creative Process [4:57 mins.]
Margaret Atwood
on Why We Tell Stories [5:05 mins.]
The Power of
Ideas [28:41 mins.]
One on One:
An Atwood Interview [22:38 mins.]
Cynthia Ozick, "Puttermesser"
"Reading
is Bread": Cynthia Ozick [22:49 mins.] [short
version] [8:28 mins.]
James Clarke, The Juried Heart
James Clarke
Reading: "How to Bribe a Judge"
[2:13 mins.]
James Clarke
on the Human Face of the Law [2:29 mins.]
James Clarke
on the Door to Poetry [1:57 mins.]
The Kid From
Simcoe Street, An Autobiographical Work [2:58
mins.]
Tolstoy, "The Death of Ivan Ilych"
Professor
Andrew W. Kaufman Lectures on "The Death of Ivan Ilych"
[7:06 mins.]
Sheldon
Solomon on Mortality [2:62 mins.] [Sheldon Solomon
is a Professor of Psychology at Skidmore College] Sheldon
Solomon on Why We Fear Death [3:04 mins.]
Robert
Jay Lifton on 9/11 and His Own Death Anxiety [3:14
mins.]
Sam
Keen on Ernest Becker [4:41
mins.] [Ernest Becker is the author of The Denial of Death]
Lawyers | Poets | Poetry
Ways of Thinking About Poetry
"Poetry"
by Marianne Moore [1:52 mins.]
Garrison
Keillor Reading Billy Collins: "An Introduction to Poetry"
[1:12 mins.]
Billy Collins:
Everyday Moments, Caught in Time [15:13 mins.]
[TED Talk]
Slowing Down
[0:40 secs.] [Naomi Shihab Nye] Unfolding
[0:40 mins.] Write
Things Down [2:08 mins.]
Robert
Frost's "The Road Not Taken" [3:23 mins.]
song|music by Paul Finnican [Robert
Frost reads "The Road Not Taken"] [A Reading of Frost's
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"]
David Whyte on
The Power of Imagination [1:44 mins.] On
Belonging and Coming Home [2:02 mins.] Preserving
the Soul [8:28 mins.] David
Whyte's Three Marriages [2:55 mins.] Resilence
[4:23 mins.] The
Journey [3:03 mins.]
Mary Oliver
with Coleman Barks [6:35 mins.] [Mary Oliver reads
her poems; the relevant part of the video is the conversation with
Coleman Barks that begins at 3:04 mins.]
Scott Griffin
(a Canadian businessman) on the Importance of Poetry [16:33
mins.] [TED talk]
Reading Poetry
How To Read
a Poem [4.01 mins.] [Edward Hirsch] [full
interview] [34:33 mins.]
Mary Oliver
reading "Wild Geese" [1:20 mins.]
Coleman Barks
reads the Poetry of Rumi [4:43 mins.]
On Becoming a Poet
Coleman Barks
[32:09 mins.]
How I Came to
Work on Rumi's Poems [2:05 mins.]
Lawyer|Poets
Richard
Krech In Chambers [9:25 mins.] Krech
reading Travel Poems [7:23 mins.] Krech
Reading More of His Poems [5:29 mins.]
Michael
Blumenthal Reads His Poetry at West Virginia University [3:12
mins.] Michael
Blumenthal Reading [59:50 mins.]
Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish
reading "Ars Poetica" [1:19 mins.]
Wallace Stevens
"The
Man with the Blue Guitar" [1:08 mins.]
"The
Idea of Order at Key West" [3:29 mins.] "Thirteen
Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" [2:17 mins.]
"The
Emperor of Ice-Cream" [1:03 mins.] "Sunday
Morning" [6:54 mins.] Harold
Bloom reciting Wallace Stevens' "Tea at the Palace of Hoon" [1:42
mins.] Wallace
Stevens reads "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"
[2:03 mins.] Wallace
Stevens reads "So & So Reclining on Her Couch" [2:12
mins.]
Harold Bloom
reciting Wallace Stevens' "Tea at the Palace of Hoon" [1:43
mins.]
Edgar Lee Masters
"The Hill"
[2:06 mins.]
Charles Reznikoff
"Beggar Woman"
[0.20 mins.]
Lawrence Joseph
Lawrence Joseph
[28:30 mins.]
Poets on Poetry
Charles Wright
on Poetry as a "Reason for Living" [3:44
mins.]
Donald
Hall recites his poetry, talks of his life [30:04
mins.]
Joy Harjo: Poems
are houses for spirits [28:46 mins.] [".
. . writing a poem is about listening."]
Jane Hirshfield
on her "unearned luck," her poetry [29:59 mins.]
A Poet Has Some Fun
Coleman Barks
reading "The Tuesday Before Thanksgiving" [3:44
mins.]
Writing: Other Course Resources
On Writing a Creative Essay for the Course
John
Irving on The Thrill of the Blank Page [1:00 mins.]
Christopher
Hitchens Advice for Writers [2:07 mins.]
Junot
Díaz Discusses the Writing Process [3:56
mins.]
Three
Tips for Young Writers [1:55 mins.]
How
To Write Better Almost Instantly [1:09 mins.]
Pt2 [0:47 mins.]
Creative Nonfiction
Creative Nonfiction
Writing for Scientists [18:15 mins.] [a Lee Gutkin
presentation; Gutkin mentions both narrative law and narrative medicine]
The
Structure of Creative Nonfiction [8:00 mins.]
The Author
in the Writing [2:20 mins.]
Advanced Creative
Nonfiction [13:35 mins.] [Lex Williford] Pt2
[14:37 mins.] Pt3
[13:58 mins.] Pt4
[10:25 mins.]
Susan Orlean:
Creative Nonfiction | Write Truth with Style
[1:34 mins.] Susan
Orlean Interview [9:09 mins.] Susan
Orlean: The Power of Narrative [1:12:35 mins.]
The freewheelin'
Susan Orlean [9:09 mins] Ian
Brown in conversation with Susan Orlean [9:09
mins]
Narrative Nonfiction
Making It Work:
Surviving the Process, Surviving Yourself--Living and Writing Narrative
Nonfiction [1:27:20 mins.; panel discussion]
Lawrence Weschler
presents "Form and Freedom in Narrative Non-Fiction" [1:41:35
mins.]
On Writing (the actual process)
Scott Berkun:
On How to Write Well [5:12 mins.]
Poets v. Prose Writers
On What Writers
Learn from Poetry and from Fiction [6:00 mins.][Edward
Hirsch]
Writers Talking about Writing
Andre
Dubus III [13:43 mins.] John
Irving on the Need to be Alone [1:20 mins.] Staring
Down the Challenges of Writing [3:47 mins.] [Paul
Auster, novelist] Tom
Perrotta's Advice to Writers [7:10 mins.] Learning
How to Write Well [5:47 mins.] [Yann Martel, novelist,
author of Life of Pi] How
Do You Write? [4:01 mins.] [Jonathan Franzen]
Judy Reeves
on Taking Pen in Hand [46:20 mins.] On
Writing: The Best Writing Advice I Know [1:38
mins.] [James Scott Bell] Walter
Mosley [2:07 mins.] Charlie
Rose Talks to Writers [13:43 mins.] [Charlie
Rose talks to Martin Amis, Zadie Smith, Malcolm Gladwell, Joan Didion,
Jonathan Franzen, and Fran Lebowitz] Michael
Connelly [1:24 mins.]
Writers Big Think Interviews
Tim
O'Brien [45:55 mins.] John
Irving [36:27 mins.] Robert
Stone [45:55 mins.]
Screenwriters on Writing
The
Writer's Journey and Mythic Structure with Christopher Vogler
[4:56 mins.]
Christopher
Vogler on the Hero's Odyssey in Writing [31:51
mins.]
Big
Think Interview With Robert McKee [1:00:38 mins.]
A
Writer Attends a Screenwriting Workshop: A Scene from "Adaptation"
[3:02 mins.]
Robert
McKee: How Do You Tell A Non-Linear Story? [5:09
mins.]
Robert
McKee: Writers Make Sense Out of Chaos [9:10 mins.]
John
Truby: The Anatomy of Story: Pt1 & Pt2 [6:44
mins.] Pt3
[3:38 mins.] Pt4
[7:17 mins.]
John
Truby: The Story World [6:03 mins.]
John
Truby: On How a Character Changes [6:07 mins.]
Physicans Writing
Abraham
Verghese: Medicine and Writing [4:50 mins.]
Danielle Ofri
on Writing about Medicine [0:57 mins.] [Danielle
Ofri is the editor of the Bellevue Literary Review, a journal
devoted to medicine and literature]
Physicians as
Writers: Oliver Sacks in Conversation with Danielle Ofri [48:15
mins.] [the Sacks/Ofri conversation begins at 5:10 mins.]
Why Physicians
Write: Danielle Ofri [1:09:11 mins.]
Danielle Ofri
Reads "Tools of the Trade" from her book [10:25
mins.] [Danielle Ofri is the author of Incidental Findings: Lessons
from My Patients in the Art of Medicine (New York: Beacon Press,
2006)]
Medical Students'
Reflective Writing: What Can We Learn? [10:25
mins.] [Johanna Shapiro presentation begins at 4:00 mins.]
Good and Bad Writing
Steven Pinker
on Good Writing, with Ian McEwan [1:18:02 mins.]
Importance of Writing
The
Right Stuff: The Importance of Writing [1:19 mins.]
Lawyer Writers
An
Interview with John Grisham [6:20 mins.]
Additional Course Resources
Literary Theory|Criticism
"My allegiance is not to a literary theory but to the
sum total of my liberating literary experiences . . . ." ~
Frank Lentricchia, The Edge of Night: A Confession
88 (New York: Random House, 1994)
Literary Schools
of Interpretation: With Drawings [10:50 mins.]
The Major Theories
of Literary Criticism [22:00 mins.] [Marc
D. Baldwin]
A Brief Introduction
to Literary Theory [28:43 mins.] [Raph Stevens]
Literary Criticism:
How and Why? [42:37 mins.] [Simon Leys]
Introduction
to Literary Theory [39:29 mins.] [a teacher's
lecture/introduction to a course]
Terry Eagleton:
"The Death of Criticism?" [1:09:50 mins.]
Schools of Literary Theory
The New Criticism
[34:50 mins.] [Ralph Stevens]
Formalist Criticism
[21:01 mins.]
Structuralist
Literary Theory [32:35 mins.] [Ralph Stevens]
An Endnote: Humanities and Liberal Arts Education
Mark Edmundson:
A Real Education [7:32 mins.] Mark
Edmundson on Education [10:04 mins.]
Bennington President
Liz Coleman's Call to Reinvent Liberal Arts Education [18:39
mins.]
Terry Eagleton
in conversation with Roger Scruton [1:26:58 mins.]
The Humanities
in the Face of Brain Science: Roger Scruton [1:27:12
mins.]
Speaking of Education: Ken Robinson
An Interview
with Ken Robinson [15:54 mins.] Part
1 of the Interview [23:52 mins.] Life
Is Your Talents Discovered [10:58 mins.]
Ken Robinson:
How to Escape Education's Death Valley [19:11
mins.] [Ken Robinson] How
to Change Education [24:02 mins.] Educating
the Heart and Mind [48:58 mins.] Innovation
and Creativity in Education [59:41 mins.] Can
Creativity Be Taught? [6:55 mins.]
Beyond Endnotes
Reason, Fiction
and Faith [35:00 mins.] [Rebecca Goldstein, a
philosopher and a novelist, discusses her work with Steven Pinker,
a cognitive psychologist]
A Conversation
with Anne Lamott [57:11 mins.]
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