TY - BOOK AU - Thorburn,David ED - Teaching Company TI - Masterworks of early 20th-century literature T2 - The great courses SN - 1598033239 AV - LB 14.6 T487m 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - Chantilly, Va. PB - Teaching Co. KW - Education. KW - Teaching KW - Educación KW - Enseñanza KW - Literatura moderna KW - Historia y crítica KW - Siglo XX KW - Modernismo (Literatura) N1 - Course no. 2539; "Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Cover; v.1. Lecture 1. Road map : modernism and moral ambiguity ; Lecture 2. How to read fiction : Joyce's "An encounter" ; Lecture 3. Defining modernism : Monet's cathedral ; Lecture 4. Defining modernism : beyond Impressionism ; Lecture 5. "The man who would be king" : imperial fools ; Lecture 6. "Heart of darkness" : Europe's Kurtz -- Lecture 7. "Heart of darkness" : the drama of the telling ; Lecture 8. "The shadow-line" : unheroic heroes ; Lecture 9. "The good soldier" : the limits of irony ; Lecture 10. "The good soldier" : killed by kindness ; Lecture 11. Lawrence (and Joyce) : sex in modern fiction ; Lecture 12. "Horse dealer's daughter" : a shimmer within -- v. 2. Lecture 13. The metamorphosis : uneasy dreams ; Lecture 14. Dubliners : the music of the ordinary ; Lecture 15. Ulysses : Joyce's Homer ; Lecture 16. Ulysses : the incongruity principle ; Lecture 17. To the lighthouse : life stands still here ; Lecture 18. To the lighthouse : that horrid skull again -- Lecture 19. Isaac Babel : Jew and Cossack ; Lecture 20. Isaac Babel : Odessa's Homer ; Lecture 21. Faulkner's world : our frantic steeeplechase ; Lecture 22. Absalom, Absalom! : the fragile thread ; Lecture 23. Pale fire : modern or postmodern? ; Lecture 24. The moral vision of modern fiction N2 - Explore the modernism literary movement with Professor David Thorburn. See how modernist authors created new techniques to reflect an increasingly complex post-Victorian world. This tradition includes some of the greatest authors the world has know--Joyce, Faulkner, Conrad, Woolf, Kafka ER -