| Description |
7 audio discs (approximately 7 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guide (88 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.). |
| Series |
The Modern scholar |
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Modern scholar.
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| Performer |
Professor Michael D. C. Drout, lecturer. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
| Bibliography |
Course guide includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
Is literature a kind of lie? Can fiction ever be "realistic"? Why do we read? What should we read? Professor Drout provides insight into these and other provocative questions, including those related to the role of the text, author, and audience in the reading process. |
| Contents |
Lecture 1. Understanding literature: some big questions -- Lecture 2. Language -- Lecture 3. The text -- Lecture 4. The author -- Lecture 5. The audience -- Lecture 6. Genres -- Lecture 7. Formalism and forms: primarily poetry -- Lecture 8. Form, pattern, and symbol: prose -- Lecture 9. Literature and the mind -- Lecture 10. What is postmodernism and why are people saying such horrible things about it? -- Lecture 11. Identity politics -- Lecture 12. Culture and cultural production -- Lecture 13. The literary canon -- Lecture 14. What do we talk about when we talk about literature? |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Literature -- Philosophy.
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Books and reading.
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Literature -- Explication.
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| Added Author |
Recorded Books, Inc. Publisher.
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| Added Title |
Way with words 2 |
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Way with words two |
| ISBN |
9781428173941 set $98.75 |
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1428173943 set $98.75 |
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9781428173958 course guide |
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1428173951 course guide |
| Music No. |
UC109 Recorded Books |
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