| Description |
12 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 155 pages ; 19 cm). |
| Series |
Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Note |
Compact discs. |
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Course no. 2539. |
| Performer |
David Thorburn, lecturer, Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
| Contents |
Part 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. |
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Part 2. Lecture 13. The metamorphosis--uneasy dreams -- Lecutre 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 -- Lecutre 19. Isaac Babel--Jew and Cossack -- Lecture 20. Isaac Babel--Odessa's Homer -- Lecture 21. Faulkner's world--our frantic steeple chase -- Lecture 22. Absalom, Absalom!--the fragile thread -- Lecture 23. Pale fire--modern or postmodern" -- Lecture 24. The moral vision of modern fiction. |
| Note |
24 lectures (30 minutes per lecture). |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| Added Title |
Masterworks of early twentieth-century literature |
| ISBN |
9781598033199 |
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1598033190 |
| Music No. |
2539 Teaching Company |
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