Dr. Whitney Kosters
I am an English professor who holds an M.A. in 19th-century British literature and a PhD in the Victorian novel. Despite this specialization, I've taught everything from Children's Literature to the Bible as Literature to the short story and a variety of composition courses in the 2 decades that I've been teaching English at the college level. This channel includes both full audiobooks and a series of my lectures on academic writing and canonical (or classic) literature that students and readers will likely come across at some point in life. These lectures are intended to introduce you to writing techniques, key concepts, themes, literary theories, and analyses that will help you find your best meaning in literature. And this is a space in which you should share your thoughts so that discussions can ensue!
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Dr. Whitney Kosters
Took a break from reading and lecturing tonight, but not for long. What should I make a video on next??
Follow me on YouTube @drwhitneykosters to listen to popular audiobooks and to learn important info on classic literature and the fundamentals of writing and research! 📚📖
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Dr. Whitney Kosters
Join me for a critical exploration of the novel that introduced us to it all: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. I recently visited The Wizarding World of Harry Potter to get into the magic of Harry’s new world since I just posted a lecture on the novel, focusing on narrative choices, character analyses, identity formation, and how the text appeals to both the monomyth and Bildungsroman. Be sure to visit my page both for an audiobook and the analysis!
Watch the lecture on _Harry Porter and the Sorcerer’s Stone_ here: https://youtu.be/1AKwLMxnAOs?si=kb6MF...
Listen to the audiobook of _Harry Porter and the Sorcerer’s Stone_ here: https://youtu.be/rATHeyEkWhM?feature=...
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Dr. Whitney Kosters
Randomly wearing all black and reveling in Edgar Allan Poe’s cellar, which remarkably resembles the one described in Poe’s 1843 short story, “The Black Cat,” a tale about alcoholism, madness, animal brutality, and domestic violence (and brilliantly retold in Netflix’s #thefallofthehouseofusher). Among other crimes, the mad narrator of “The Black Cat” buries an axe in his wife’s brain and hides her body behind the bricks of his cellar (a macabre burial that would famously be followed up by Montresor’s entombment of Fortunato a few years later in “The Cask of Amontillado”). Later, when the police break down the brick wall, they find the narrator’s missing cat sitting atop the wife’s “corpse, already greatly decayed and clotted with gore…” 🧱🐈⬛💀
To learn more about Poe from an English professor, visit me on YouTube/TikTok/Instagram @drwhitneykosters for literary analyses, lectures, and posts.
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#theblackcat #poe #edgarallanpoe #philadelphia #historicalsite #lecture #literature #shortstory #blackcat #thecaskofamontillado #madness #animal #cat #famousliterature #americanliterature #cellar #paranormal #unreliablenarrator #nineteenthcenturyliterature #whatsbehindthebricks #shortstory #netflix
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