William Faulkner Nobel Prize Speech

In this speech by the great American author William Faulkner, he encourages young writers to write about the human spirit. Delivered in 1950, Faulkner acknowledges the crippling physical fear of nuclear war. He feels that humanity will prevail because our souls are immortal and the soul is what writers should be concerned with, and it is the soul which Faulkner set out to explore in his life's work. This speech is available on streaming audio from American Rhetoric. Note: The original recording gets cut off, but the recorded reading contains the complete speech.

Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature

At the heart of this 1930 novel is the Bundren family's bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Faulkner lets each family member, including Addie, and others along the way tell their private responses to Addie's life.

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The Gordon Skene Sound Collection is a massive collection of speeches and historical events recorded on audio. LearnOutLoud.com is pleased to now be offering over 50 audio downloads from the Gordon Skene Sound Collection.

Message from Gordon Skene:

"As a rule I hate looking back. The trouble with looking back is you tend to stare at it a long time, and nothing really good ever comes of that. I'm also not a big fan of "nostalgia". I think of nostalgia and think "fond remembrance of events that never occurred" - time tends to blow small events out of proportion and large events into heart stopping defining moments which, at the time didn't amount to much. So why look back at all?

The Gordon Skene Sound Collection & my new site Newstalgia are here to help put history and current events into perspective. Some things never change, some people never change - only the names and situations and outcomes. Sometimes history consists of the same set of events and circumstances over and over until the lesson is learned or the methods changed. Some things never change and some things are destined never to be the same again."

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Browse Over 120 Audio Courses from the Modern Scholar Series

Today we're highlighting over 20 literature courses released by the Modern Scholar. Browse these courses covering literature from Greek drama to The Bible to medieval classics up to modern literature covering areas such as Irish Literature, Russian Literature, Fantasy Literature, Modern American Poetry, and more.

And to prove the excellence of these courses, we are offering for free the first lecture as the audio sample for each course! Browse and listen to samples of all of these literature courses:

Archaeology and the Iliad: The Trojan War in Homer and History Taught by Prof. Eric H. Cline

Bard of the Middle Ages: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Taught by Prof. Michael Drout

The Bible and the Roots of Western Literature Taught by Prof. Adam Potkay

Classical Mythology: The Romans Taught by Prof. Peter Meineck

Dante and His Divine Comedy Taught by Prof. Timothy B. Shutt

The Dead Sea Scrolls Taught by Prof. Lawrence H. Schiffman

Eternal Chalice: The Grail in Literature and Legend Taught by Prof. Monica Potkay

The Giants of Irish Literature: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce and Beckett Taught by Prof. George O'Brien

The Giants of Russian Literature: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov Taught by Prof. Liza Knapp

Greek Drama: Tragedy and Comedy Taught by Prof. Peter Meineck

The Hebrew Bible Taught by Prof. Lawrence H. Schiffman

Literature of C.S. Lewis Taught by Prof. Timothy B. Shutt

Odyssey of the West I - A Classic Education through the Great Books: Hebrews and Greeks Taught by Multiple Professors

Odyssey of the West II - A Classic Education through the Great Books: From Athens to Rome and the Gospels Taught by Multiple Professors

Odyssey of the West III - A Classic Education through the Great Books: The Medieval World Taught by Multiple Professors

Odyssey of the West IV - A Classic Education through the Great Books: Towards Enlightenment Taught by Multiple Professors

Odyssey of the West V - A Classic Education through the Great Books: Enlightenment, Revolution, and Renewal Taught by Multiple Professors

Rings, Swords, and Monsters: Exploring Fantasy Literature Taught by Prof. Michael Drout

Shakespeare: Ten Great Comedies Taught by Prof. Raphael Shargel

Walt Whitman and the Birth of Modern American Poetry Taught by Prof. Karen Karbiener

A Way with Words, Part IV: Understanding Poetry Taught by Prof. Michael Drout

At LearnOutLoud.com we plan to listen to all of these Modern Scholar courses! Join us in listening to the classes of some of the best teachers in the world.

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