| Description |
18 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks (60, 64, 68 pages ; 22 cm.). |
| Series |
The great courses. Literature & English language |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Performer |
Irwin Weil, lecturer. |
| System Details |
Compact disc. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Lecture 1. Origins of Russian literature -- Lecture 2. The Church and the folk in Old Kiev -- Lecture 3. Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, 1799-1837 -- Lecture 4. Exile, rustic seclusion, and Onegin -- Lecture 5. December's uprising and two poets meet -- Lecture 6. A poet contrasts talent versus mediocrity -- Lecture 7. St. Petersburg glorified and death embraced -- Lecture 8. Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol', 1809-1852 -- Lecture 9. Russian grotesque, overcoats to dead souls -- Lecture 10. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, 1821-1881 -- Lecture 11. Near mortality, prison, and an underground -- Lecture 12. Second wife and a great crime novel begins. |
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pt. 2. Lecture 13. Inside the troubled mind of a criminal -- Lecture 14. The generation of the Karamazovs -- Lecture 15. The novelistic presence of Christ and Satan -- Lecture 16. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910 -- Lecture 17. Tale of two cities and a country home -- Lecture 18. Family life meets military life -- Lecture 19. Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord -- Lecture 20. Family life makes a comeback -- Lecture 21. Tolstoy the preacher -- Lecture 22. Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, 1818-1883 -- Lecture 23. The stresses between two generations -- Lecture 24. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, 1860-1904. |
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pt. 3. Lecture 25. M. Gorky (Aleksei M. Peshkov), 1868-1936 -- Lecture 26. Literature and revolution -- Lecture 27. The Tribune : Vladimir Maiakovsky, 1893-1930 -- Lecture 28. The revolution makes a U-turn -- Lecture 29. Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, 1905-1984 -- Lecture 30. Revolutions and civil war -- Lecture 31. Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko, 1895-1958 -- Lecture 32. Among the godless : religion and family life -- Lecture 33. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, 1890-1960 -- Lecture 34. The poet in and beyond society -- Lecture 35. Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, born 1918 -- Lecture 36. The many colors of Russian literature. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Russian literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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Russian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Audiobooks.
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Compact discs.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
1598031856 |
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9781598031850 |
| Music No. |
2830 The Teaching Co. |
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2830-01--2830-03 The Teaching Co. |
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