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Masterpieces of short fiction / Michael Krasny.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: Mixed materialsMixed materialsLanguage: English Series: Great courses (DVD). Literature & English language | The Great courses | The Great CoursesPublication details: Chantilly, Virginia : The Teaching Company, 2008.Description: 4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 139 p. ; 19 cm.)ISBN:
  • 1598034405
  • 9781598034400
Uniform titles:
  • The Great Courses
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370
LOC classification:
  • LB 14.6 K89m 2008
Contents:
Part 1. Disc 1. lecture 1. Excavations : Poe's "The cask of Amontillado" ; lecture 2. Hawthorne's "Goodman Brown" and lost faith ; lecture 3. Under Gogol's "Overcoat" ; lecture 4. Maupassant's "The necklace" : real and paste ; lecture 5. Chekhov, love, and "The lady with the dog" ; lecture 6. James in the art studio : "The real thing" -- Disc 2. lecture 7. Epiphany and the modern in Joyce's "Araby" ; lecture 8. Babel's "My first goose" : violent concision ; lecture 9. Male initiation : Hemingway's "The killers" ; lecture 10. Kafka's parable : "A hunger artist" ; lecture 11. Lawrence's blue-eyed "Rocking-horse winner" ; lecture 12. Female initiation : Mansfield's "Party." Part 2. Disc 3. lecture 13. Jackson's shocking vision in "The lottery" ; lecture 14. O'Connor's "A good man is hard to find" ; lecture 15. Paley on survival and "An interest in life" ; lecture 16. The "Enormous wings" of Garcia Marquez ; lecture 17. A new world fable : Malamud's "The Jewbird" ; lecture 18. Baldwin's "Sonny's blues" : a Harlem song -- Disc 4. lecture 19. Updike's "A & P" : the choice of gallantry ; lecture 20. Kingston's Warrior myth : "No name woman" ; lecture 21. Atwood's "Happy endings" as metafiction ; lecture 22. Gordimer's "Moment before" Apartheid fell ; lecture 23. Carver's "Cathedral" : a story that levitates ; lecture 24. Why short fiction masterpieces?
Summary: "This course takes you on an exciting ride through an itinerary that samples 23 of the world's greatest short stories. The form of the genre, as well as the various ways in which it has evolved, is highlighted along the way with a display of the essential nuts and bolts of storytelling-- plot, character, setting, style, point of view, and theme. A mix of critical approaches will also be brought in to enhance analysis and interpretation and to explore some of the ways we judge and evaluate short fiction"--Page 1 [booklet 1].
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Part 1. Disc 1. lecture 1. Excavations : Poe's "The cask of Amontillado" ; lecture 2. Hawthorne's "Goodman Brown" and lost faith ; lecture 3. Under Gogol's "Overcoat" ; lecture 4. Maupassant's "The necklace" : real and paste ; lecture 5. Chekhov, love, and "The lady with the dog" ; lecture 6. James in the art studio : "The real thing" --
Disc 2. lecture 7. Epiphany and the modern in Joyce's "Araby" ; lecture 8. Babel's "My first goose" : violent concision ; lecture 9. Male initiation : Hemingway's "The killers" ; lecture 10. Kafka's parable : "A hunger artist" ; lecture 11. Lawrence's blue-eyed "Rocking-horse winner" ; lecture 12. Female initiation : Mansfield's "Party." Part 2. Disc 3. lecture 13. Jackson's shocking vision in "The lottery" ; lecture 14. O'Connor's "A good man is hard to find" ; lecture 15. Paley on survival and "An interest in life" ; lecture 16. The "Enormous wings" of Garcia Marquez ; lecture 17. A new world fable : Malamud's "The Jewbird" ; lecture 18. Baldwin's "Sonny's blues" : a Harlem song --
Disc 4. lecture 19. Updike's "A & P" : the choice of gallantry ; lecture 20. Kingston's Warrior myth : "No name woman" ; lecture 21. Atwood's "Happy endings" as metafiction ; lecture 22. Gordimer's "Moment before" Apartheid fell ; lecture 23. Carver's "Cathedral" : a story that levitates ; lecture 24. Why short fiction masterpieces?

"This course takes you on an exciting ride through an itinerary that samples 23 of the world's greatest short stories. The form of the genre, as well as the various ways in which it has evolved, is highlighted along the way with a display of the essential nuts and bolts of storytelling-- plot, character, setting, style, point of view, and theme. A mix of critical approaches will also be brought in to enhance analysis and interpretation and to explore some of the ways we judge and evaluate short fiction"--Page 1 [booklet 1].

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