| Description |
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sd.col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 books. |
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The great courses. Literature & English language |
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Great courses (DVD). Literature & English language.
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DVD. |
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Presented by Professor Timothy Spurgin of Lawrence University. |
| Summary |
Examines the wonderful feeling of engaging with a novel or short story on all levels and learning how artful readers think about and approach the works they read. |
| Contents |
Part 1: Lecture 1. Artful reading and everyday reading -- Lecture 2. Authors, real and implied -- Lecture 3. Narrators: their voices and their visions -- Lecture 4. Characters: beyond round and flat -- Lecture 5. Descriptions: people, places, and the things -- Lecture 6. Minimalists to maximalists to lyricists -- Lecture 7. Explosive devices: irony and ambiguity -- Lecture 8. Reading for the plot: five simple words -- Lecture 9. Master plots: the stranger and the journey -- Lecture 10. The Game is afoot: Sherlock Holmes -- Lecture 11. The Plot thickens: Scott and Bronte -- Lecture 12.The Plot vanishes: Faulkner and Woolf. |
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Part 2 : Lecture 13. Chapters, patterns and rhythms -- Lecture 14. Scene and summary, showing and telling -- Lecture 15. Subtexts, motives, and secrets -- Lecture 16. Dialogue: the good, the bad, the ugly -- Lecture 17. Metafiction: fiction about fiction -- Lecture 18. Adaptation: from fiction to film -- Lecture 19. Realism times four -- Lecture 20. Thumbs up? interpretation and evaluation -- Lecture 21. A Long short story: Runaway-- Lecture 22. A Classic novel : the age of innocence -- Lecture 23. A Baggy monster: War and peace -- Lecture 24. Picking up the tools. |
| Note |
For specific features see interactive menu. |
| Subject |
Literature -- Explication -- Videodiscs.
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Books and reading -- Videodiscs.
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Content area reading -- Videodiscs.
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Authors and readers -- Videodiscs.
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DVDs.
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Documentary films.
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Educational films.
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Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
9781598035674 |
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1598035673 |
| Music No. |
2198 Teaching Company |
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