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Nick Mount
Приєднався 20 лис 2012
Professor, historian, peregrino. Best-selling author of Arrival: The Story of CanLit, currently writing the first history of vandalism. Believes in naps. Lectures and videos, most from and for classes at the University of Toronto.
Nick Mount on Sylvia Plath's Ariel
Big Ideas, TVO, 1hr. Rec. March 5, 2009, Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto. Aired on TVO's Big Ideas, Nov. 20, 2010.
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ENG140 2020: The Trailer
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ENG140 Literature for Our Time at the University of Toronto, 2020-21 Syllabus at nickmount.faculty.english.utoronto.ca/ Gogo and Didi figurines by Jessica Comella
Zoom Intro
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An introduction to Zoom for University of Toronto English instructors. 1:15 signing up 3:37 settings 7:38 scheduling a class 9:37 starting a class 10:10 running a class (Zoom controls) I recorded this video using Wondershare Filmora on a PC. Thanks to Adam Hammond, Misha Teramura, and Alex Hernandez for their advice.
Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
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The final lecture of the year in COVD-19 suspended class ENG140 Literature for Our Time at the University of Toronto, on Chris Ware's 2000 graphic novel. By Prof. Nick Mount, rec. April 1-2, 2020.
Comics & The Graphic Novel
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This lecture for COVD-19 suspended class ENG140 Literature for Our Time at the University of Toronto introduces Chris Ware's 2000 graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth through an introduction to the form and history of comics. By Prof. Nick Mount, rec. March 25-28, 2020.
Nick Mount on Alice Munro
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An expanded introduction to some of the writers featured in Arrival: The Story of CanLit houseofanansi.com/products/arrival. Rec. at Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto, Nov. 27, 2017
Nick Mount on bp Nichol
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An expanded introduction to some of the writers featured in Arrival: The Story of CanLit houseofanansi.com/products/arrival. Rec. at Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto, Oct. 30, 2017
Nick Mount on Margaret Atwood
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An expanded introduction to some of the writers featured in Arrival: The Story of CanLit houseofanansi.com/products/arrival. Rec. at Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto, Oct. 23, 2017
Nick Mount on Marie-Claire Blais
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An expanded introduction to some of the writers featured in Arrival: The Story of CanLit houseofanansi.com/products/arrival. Rec. at Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto, Oct. 2, 2017
Nick Mount on Mordecai Richler
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An expanded introduction to some of the writers featured in Arrival: The Story of CanLit houseofanansi.com/products/arrival. Rec. at Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto, Sep. 18, 2017
Nick Mount on Margaret Laurence
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An expanded introduction to some of the writers featured in Arrival: The Story of CanLit houseofanansi.com/products/arrival Rec. at Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto, Nov. 13, 2017
Nick Mount on Leonard Cohen
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An expanded introduction to some of the writers featured in Arrival: The Story of CanLit houseofanansi.com/products/arrival Rec. at Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto, Nov. 20, 2017
Nick Mount on Al Purdy
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An expanded introduction to some of the writers featured in Arrival: The Story of CanLit houseofanansi.com/products/arrival Rec. at Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto, Oct. 16, 2017
Nick Mount on Dennis Lee
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An expanded introduction to some of the writers featured in Arrival: The Story of CanLit houseofanansi.com/products/arrival Rec. at Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto, Nov. 6, 2017
Nick Mount on Mavis Gallant
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An expanded introduction to some of the writers featured in Arrival: The Story of CanLit houseofanansi.com/products/arrival Rec. Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto, Sep. 25, 2017
James King & Lauren Mayer sing "Wig in a Box"
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James King & Lauren Mayer sing "Wig in a Box"
Nick Mount TVO Lecture on Nabokov's Lolita, Jan 27, 2007
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Nick Mount TVO Lecture on Nabokov's Lolita, Jan 27, 2007
Nick Mount on Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
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Nick Mount on Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
Nick Mount on Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
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Nick Mount on Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
Nick Mount on T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land
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Nick Mount on T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land
The Talk about Teachers Today pt. 4 of 4
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The Talk about Teachers Today pt. 4 of 4
The Talk about Teachers Today pt. 3 of 4
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The Talk about Teachers Today pt. 3 of 4
The Talk about Teachers Today pt. 2 of 4: Ignorant & Overpaid
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The Talk about Teachers Today pt. 2 of 4: Ignorant & Overpaid
Nick Mount - The Talk about Teachers Today pt. 1 of 4: Hard Questions for Universities
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Nick Mount - The Talk about Teachers Today pt. 1 of 4: Hard Questions for Universities
Brilliant connections!
It’s 2024 as I listen to this lecture. The World is full of conflict by elderly leaders in Russia, The United States, China, Iran and others. I thought of this as Prof. Mount discussed the story of ‘The Fisher King’. The land has become sterile as the King is elderly and in poor health. A noble knight of pure heart seeks the Holy Grail and the wisdom to cure the King…. It seems like we’re re living this world story currently.
I thought of our Ukrainian Defenders when he spoke of noble knights of pure heart. Our “Warriors of Light.” Obviously more thought will go into this idea/association, but that’s what sprung to mind. Also, “trench poetry” and Wilfred Owen.
At the onset of the 21st Century, the George W, Bush administration significantly increased military spending, withdraw from the anti-ballistic missile treaty while pursuing and funding missile defence shield systems, thus abandoning a key pillar of Post-war arms control. Bush then declares a headstrong determination to extend NATO ever eastwards prior to launching the invasion of Iraq on false evidence. US intervention in the former Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya rode roughshod over international law. The Wolfowitz Doctrine and Project for the New American Century has led to over 20 years of interminable wars. It's killed millions, displaced about 39 million people according to data, and cost trillions of dollars. Global spending on weapons has never been higher. Fortunately BRICS is growing, a multi polar world is emerging and dedollarisation is undermining US cohersion, which primarily impacts civilians. What did Madelaine Albright say about 500.000 dead Iraqi babies due to US sanctions? It was a difficult decision but we think it was worth it.
@@sabeaver9677you're delusional. You sound like Himmler describing the SS. He was also delusional.
Excellent work Mr. Mount
One other thing. I had a marriage similar to Plath and Hughes. I do not believe she would be happy with her married name being taken off in any manner from her tombstone or elsewhere. She died so soon after their separation that I'd call it 'incomplete;' primary seperations rarely take. I was adopted. I understand feeling a lack of identity, and her married name was a piece of identity puzzle. Whether one's intentions in taking 'Hughes' off were good or not, it was actually selfish and short-sighted.
One other thing. I had a marriage similar to Plath and Hughes. I do not believe she would be happy with her married name being taken off in any manner from her tombstone or elsewhere. She died so soon after their separation that I'd call it 'incomplete;' primary seperations rarely take. I was adopted. I understand feeling a lack of identity, and her married name was a piece of identity puzzle. Whether one's intentions in taking 'Hughes' off were good or not, it was actually selfish and short-sighted.
I don't have a knack for poetry, I'm learning, but I like her use of the word 'effacement' in a poem about a new baby and mother; it feels so apt. Effacement is what the cervix does during birth. Most people know of dilation, I think less know about effacement. It felt like an Easter egg kind of, like a hidden surprise.
Shouldn't the reference to Chaplan be Keaton?
I've also never heard Godot pronounced this way.
This is serious nonsense.
Incredible lecture. Thank you for helping make clear for us a nearly impenetrable poem!
Thank you so much for posting this wonderful lecture!
Took Professor Mount’s class the last year he taught it (2021/22). At the time I was too busy being a first year student to appreciate the beauty of the poem and eloquence of his lecture. Looking back as a (slightly) older student, I find it to be one of the most painfully emotional depictions of modernity. Gone are the gods of old and hope of the new. All we’re left with is the knowledge that we are responsible for where we are, and there’s little chance of us getting out of it.
masterful lecture… phew!
Thank you, Nick. Woolf's novel comes alive for me via your lecture --- all the way to tropical Philippines. Brilliant.
You're most welcome!
Thank you for this brilliant lecture sir
A wonderful presentation
This is a brilliant analysis! Thank you for making this lecture publicly available!
I learned much from your lecture, even as a Gallant fanatic, but I am surprised that you do not mention the unparalleled perfection of her prose.
Just... beautiful ❤
when the guy opens pronouncing it wrong nothing good to be expected
Brilliantly delivered exposition 👌🏻.
I've listened to this several times over the past six years -- wonderful lecture!
That was a trailer for a first year university course? That was nothing short of amazing.
Leonard Cohen is one of Canada's few internationally renown poet singer song writers. Mount does a great job of mostly running Cohen down from start to finish. If you are a Cohen fan and don't want to invite nausea, don't bother accessing this lecture..
Brilliant insights into one of my favourite novels of all time. Thank you for sharing this!
This was so well presented and articulated. Thank you for this, it helped me understand so many more layers that "Waiting For Godot" has to it.
I am just a random person and for me this is the best lecture of all times
Thank you so much, absolutely brilliant.
Or 2023
A Scapeshifter
I read WFG when I was young, in the US Navy off the coast of Viet Nam. Didn't really get it. Read it many times over the years and watched the play on UA-cam a few times. Why would someone who didn't get it, return to it over and over? Because there is something intriguing in it. A thing of beauty that we can't describe. A hole that shouldn't be there with an unknown depth. Fortunately, by flipping through various things on UA-cam, this lecture came up. Now I understand what I don't understand. Absolutely brilliant lecture that opened many doors to different universes. Never thought I'd be able to see something invisible, but your lecture has changed my view.
Whether literary genious and mental illness are synonymous is a very middle class conceit, mental illness is ugly, brutish, smothers and kills those it inflicts, more often poor and uneducated that 'literary' in pretention. Some poets were mentally ill, it doesn't make it magical, insightful or special, academia, get over yourselves.
That this lecture is awe-inspiring would be an understatement. It is unparalleled.
Thankyou
Amazing that they had the presence of mind to bring back scraps of stained glass, with everything they faced on a daily basis. Impressive
Very good. Very interesting. Much to disagree with.
I appreciate your honest assessment of Duddy K. I read it in my late twenties and was not that impressed by it (Roth and Bellow were simply better). But I love Atuk, Barney, and the collections of non-fiction. Great to find this up!
I found this an absolutely impossible read. The grammar is just ridiculous. There are a hundred commas and bracketed sections within paragrahps making it difficult to remember what the first part of the paragraph was even about.
Another thing - it's not a play, it's a statement. A play that goes on too long, repeating the statement. The statement could last just 5 minutes. I'm debunking a myth. It's not a clever play, it's in fact boring. Enjoyed by the actors - easy to act out and they get paid. But for the audience, dull. Could well be Beckett's intention, seeing how cynical he was. In other words, he's taking the piss!
No
Godot is Death. Death determines all. Beckett was a cold-eyed intellectual, not what we'd call a fun person. His loss I think. Could be the Irish Protestant in him - I know what they can be like, my father's family was Irish Protestant, a tiny minority in County Galway. They wallowed in being different and unlike the 'mad' Catholics. I can see that very serious, problematical side in Beckett. Fools really.
Check out these amazing summaries of the waste land 1. The burial of the dead ua-cam.com/video/pJ8BcVM-xw4/v-deo.htmlsi=L6uavnM-PY-W_zzY 2. A game of chess ua-cam.com/video/qjy6LHrEX5g/v-deo.htmlsi=L9ARNIrEaduSl2yp 3. The fire sermon ua-cam.com/video/idUyz4D2Loo/v-deo.htmlsi=bsYDPfa2RlnDpf8E 4. Death by water ua-cam.com/video/S0SHLAIUDeU/v-deo.htmlsi=Wi0osahnCH8kYf4h 5.what the thunder said
(Hagar )..."is the only one for whom she had to use her imagination" is the stupidest most ridiculous comment in the history of everybody. you've certainly lost my attention.
This was amazing ! Thank you
when one like is just not enough . . Thankyou Sir
my god this is a genius, extremely informative, enriching lecture. i wish it were longer. so many points that you mentioned, i noticed while reading the play, and it's amazing to have you analyze it and share your knowledge. teachers like yourself are the ones who make me love learning. thank you a ton, can't wait to watch your lecture on woolf's to the lighthouse!
Absolutely stunning!!
This is such a unique captivating lecture. I have been teaching Dramatic Arts on secondary level for over 20 years and tonight, your lecture rekindled the reason why I love teaching. Thank you for reminding me. I needed that.
Beautiful lecture. Thank you very much for making this public.
Impressive analysis of this work of art. Thank you.
he lost me at the whole masculinity=hunting feminity=weather and emotions
fucking legendary. well well done
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