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Classics of American Literature - TTC Course No. 250
(84 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Taught by Arnold Weinstein
Brown University
Ph.D., Harvard University
Absorbing great American writing?"the classics?"is a unique way to understand the history of this country and to add to our own personal estate of literary wealth.
Classic stories and poems of American literature are found in the pages of Franklin, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, Twain, Whitman, Faulkner, James, Eliot, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Morrison, and many others.
As Professor Arnold Weinstein reminds us: "American classics are wonderfully rich fare. America is a mythic land, a place with a sense of its own destiny and promise, a place that has experienced bloody wars to achieve that destiny. The events of American history shine forth in our classics."
When was the last time you read them? Possibly not as recently as you''d like. Why? Not because you wouldn''t love it. But perhaps the demands of your daily life or some other reason have prevented this pleasure. Now, here is the opportunity to gain an extraordinary familiarity with each of these authors within a manageable amount of time, as well as review the great works you may already know.
What Explains Greatness?
These works are both American and classics. The course has been crafted to explain why some works become classics while others do not, why some "immortal" works fade from our attention completely, and even why some contemporary works now being ignored or snubbed by critics may be considered immortal one day.
One memorable work at a time, you''ll see how each of these masterpieces shares the uncompromising uniqueness that invariably marks the entire American literary canon.
From Sleepy Hollow to The Great Gatsby, Professor Weinstein contends that the literary canon lives, grows, and changes. What links these writers to each other?"and to us readers today?"is the awareness that the past lives and changes as generations of writers and readers step forward to interpret it anew.
The course was born from Professor Weinstein''s conviction that American literature is our "great estate," and that claiming this rightful inheritance?"the living past and the lessons we can take from it?"should be nothing less than a unique and joyous learning experience.
Experience Two Centuries of America''s Greatest Works
Professor Weinstein explains that America''s classic works should be savored as part of our inner landscape: part of how we see both America and ourselves.
He leads you through more than two centuries of the best writers America has yet produced, bringing out the beauty of their language, the excitement of their stories, and the value in what they say about life, power, love, adventure, and what it means, in every sense, to be American.
Perhaps you recall:
Melville''s prowling Ahab, on the search for Moby Dick, and the power of the "grand, ungodly, Godlike man"
The quiet diner in The Grapes of Wrath and the pain of one of John Steinbeck''s "Okies" trying to purchase a dime''s worth of bread
The parlor in Long Day''s Journey Into Night and the lifetime of tension in a simple request to a father that he turn on the lights.
Rip Van Winkle falls asleep for 25 years for some mysterious reason?"but what exactly was it? Why did Emerson believe in self-reliance, and why do we?
Twain, our first media celebrity, tells stories that have an inkling of Peter Pan: Tom Sawyer never does grow up. But Huck Finn must grow up to face the racism of the South and get past his own polluted conscience?"can he do it? James brings American innocents to Europe for them to inherit the world?"but do they?
Discover the Stories behind America''s Immortal Writers
Consider that:
Emily Dickinson was virtually unheard of in her own time.
William Faulkner''s books were out of print until the mid-1940s.
F. Scott Fitzgerald died believing he had been forgotten.
Readers of their times would be astounded if they knew the immortality these writers achieved, just as we are astounded that they once were overlooked.
Most of us don''t know that when Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass?"seemingly in answer to Ralph Waldo Emerson''s memorable wish for the poet America deserved?"he sent a copy to Emerson, America''s most revered man of letters. When Emerson replied in extraordinarily flattering terms, Whitman published his letter, virtually forcing the new poet''s acceptance by a literati that would might have preferred to flee from Whitman''s startlingly new, often ***ual, poetry.
Perhaps you share the common picture of Emily Dickinson: a passive, gentle, reclusive spinster content in her father''s Amherst, Massachusetts, home. If so, allow Professor Weinstein to introduce you to her friend, clergyman and author Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who said of "gentle" Emily: "I never was with anyone who drained my nerve power so much. Without touching her, she drew from me. I am glad not to live near her."
Through this course, you will learn to:
Explain the roles of self-reliance and the "self-made man" in the evolution of American literature Identify the tenets of American Romanticism. Describe the evolution of the American ghost story, from Poe and Hawthorne to James and Morrison
Outline the epic strain in American literature, from Melville and Whitman to Faulkner and Ellison
Explain the importance of slavery as a critical subject for Stowe, Twain, Faulkner, and Morrison
Summarize perspectives on nature revealed in poets Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, and Eliot
Identify the tenets of Modernism in the work of Eliot, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner
Identify the contributions of O''Neill, Miller, and Williams to American theater
Summarize the threads of the complex relationship between America''s great writers and the past.
Savor the Joy of Great Reading
Dr. Weinstein is the Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor at Brown University, where he has been teaching literature to packed classrooms since 1968. Brown University student course evaluation summaries reported: "By far, students'' greatest lament was that they only got to listen to Professor Weinstein once a week."
One customer writes: "Professor Weinstein is inspiring. Not only am I enjoying these lectures, but I am also rereading these wonderful classics and having a wonderful time."
The course will lead you to read or reread masterpieces that intrigue you most. And with the deeper understanding you gain from the lectures, you will likely experience such joy from great reading that you may wonder why you have spent so much time on contemporary books.
The 76 carefully crafted lectures in this course, each 30 minutes long, are your royal road to recapturing the American experience?"and our intellectual and cultural heritage. Just review the lecture titles. All of this can be yours, and the journey will be as rewarding as the arrival.
Course Lecture Titles
1. Introduction to Classics of American Literature
2. Benjamin Franklin''s Autobiography?"The First American Story
3. Washington Irving?"The First American Storyteller
4. Ralph Waldo Emerson Yesterday?"America''s Coming of Age
5. Emerson Today?"Architect of American Values
6. Emerson Tomorrow?"Deconstructing Culture and Self
7. Henry David Thoreau?"Countercultural Hero
8. Thoreau?"Stylist and Humorist Extraordinaire
9. Walden?"Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
10. Edgar Allan Poe
11. Poe?"Ghost Writer
12. Poe''s Legacy?"The Self as "Haunted Palace"
13. Nathaniel Hawthorne and the American Past
14. The Scarlet Letter?"Puritan Romance
15. Hawthorne''s ?oA??"Interpretation and Semiosis
16. The Scarlet Letter?"Political Tract or Psychological Study?
17. Hawthorne Our Contemporary
18. Herman Melville and the Making of Moby-Dick
19. The Biggest Fish Story of Them All
20. Ahab and the White Whale
21. Moby-Dick?"Tragedy of Perspective
22. Melville''s ?oBenito Cereno??"American (Mis)adventure at Sea
23. "Benito Cereno??"Theater of Power or Power of Theater?
24. Walt Whitman?"The American Bard Appears
25. Whitman?"Poet of the Body
26. Whitman?"Poet of the City
27. Whitman?"Poet of Death
28. The Whitman Legacy
29. Uncle Tom''s Cabin?"The Unread Classic
30. Stowe''s Representation of Slavery
31. Freedom and Art in Uncle Tom''s Cabin
32. Emily Dickinson?"In and Out of Nature
33. Dickinson''s Poetry?"Language and Consciousness
34. Dickinson?"Devotee of Death
35. Dickinson?""Amherst''s Madame de Sade"
36. Dickinson''s Legacy
37. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?"American Paradise Regained
38. Huckleberry Finn?"The Banned Classic
39. Huckleberry Finn?"A Child''s Voice, a Child''s Vision
40. Huckleberry Finn, American Orphan
41. Mark Twain''s Pudd''nhead Wilson?"Black and White Charade
42. Henry James and the Novel of Perception
43. The Turn of the Screw?"Do You Believe in Ghosts?
44. Turning the Screw of Interpretation
45. Stephen Crane and the Literature of War
46. The Red Badge of Courage?"Brave New World
47. Stephen Crane?"Scientist of Human Behavior
48. Charlotte Perkins Gilman?"War Against Patriarchy
49. ?oThe Yellow Wallpaper??"Descent into Hell or Free at Last?
50. Robert Frost and the Spirit of New England
51. Robert Frost?"?oAt Home in the Metaphor?
52. Robert Frost and the Fruits of the Earth
53. T.S. Eliot?"Unloved Modern Classic
54. T.S. Eliot?"?oThe Waste Land? and Beyond
55. F. Scott Fitzgerald''s The Great Gatsby?"American Romance
56. The Great Gatsby?"A Story of Lost Illusions?
57. Fitzgerald''s Triumph?"Writing the American Dream
58. Ernest Hemingway?Ts The Sun Also Rises
59. The Sun Also Rises?"Spiritual Quest
60. Ernest Hemingway?"Wordsmith
61. Hemingway''s The Garden of Eden?"Female Desire Unleashed
62. The Garden of Eden?"Combat Zone
63. William Faulkner''s The Sound and the Fury?"The Idiot''s Tale
64. The Sound and the Fury?"Failed Rites of Passage
65. The Sound and the Fury?"Signifying Nothing?
66. Absalom, Absalom!?"Civil War Epic
67. Absalom, Absalom!?"The Language of Love
68. Absalom, Absalom!?"The Overpass to Love
69. The Grapes of Wrath?"American Saga
70. John Steinbeck?"Poet of the Little Man
71. The Grapes of Wrath?"Reconceiving Self and Family
72. Invisible Man?"Black Bildungsroman
73. Invisible Man?"Reconceiving History and Race
74. Invisible Man?"?oWhat Did I Do, to Be So Black and Blue??
75. Eugene O''Neill?"Great God of American Theater
76. Long Day''s Journey Into Night?"There''s No Place Like Home
77. Tennessee Williams?"Managing Libido
78. A Streetcar Named Desire?"The Death of Romance
79. Death of a Salesman?"Death of an Ethos?
80. Death of a Salesman?"Tragedy of the American Dream
81. Toni Morrison''s Beloved?"Dismembering and Remembering
82. Beloved?"A Story of ?oThick Love?
83. Beloved?"Morrison''s Writing of the Body
84. Conclusion to Classics of American Literature
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Classics of Russian Literature - TTC Course No. 2830
(36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Taught by Irwin Weil
Northwestern University
Ph.D., Harvard University
Russian literature famously probes the depths of the human soul. These 36 half-hour lectures delve into this extraordinary body of work under the guidance of Professor Irwin Weil of Northwestern University, an award-winning teacher at Northwestern University and a legend among educators in the United States and Russia.
Professor Weil introduces you *****ch masterpieces as Tolstoy''s War and Peace, Dostoevsky''s Crime and Punishment, Pushkin''s Eugene Onegin, Gogol''s Dead Souls, Chekhov''s The Seagull, Pasternak''s Doctor Zhivago, and many other great novels, stories, plays, and poems by Russian authors.
You will study more than 40 works by a dozen writers, from Aleksandr Pushkin in the 19th century to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in the 20th. You will also investigate the origin of Russian literature itself, which traces to powerful epic poetry and beautiful renderings of the Bible into Slavic during the Middle Ages.
All of these works are treated in translation, but Professor Weil does something very unusual for a literature-in-translation course. For almost every passage that he quotes in English, he reads an extract in the original Russian, with a fluent accent and an actor''s sense of drama.
You may not understand Russian, but there is no mistaking the expressive intonation, rhythm, and feeling with which Professor Weil performs these passages. At one point, reciting verses from Russia''s most famous poet, he advises: "Listen to it once as a piece of music, and you will sense the linguistic genius of Pushkin."
Classics of Russian Literature explores Russian masterpieces at all levels?"characters, plots, scenes, and sometimes even single sentences, including:
Tolstoy''s Anna Karenina, which has one of the most famous first sentences in all of literature, setting the stage for a novel that probes the tragic dimension of a subject?"adultery?"that had tra***ionally been treated as satire.
Gogol''s Dead Souls, with a concluding passage beloved to all Russians, in which the hero flees the scene of his fiendishly clever swindle in a troika?"a fast carriage drawn by three horses?"to the author''s invocation, "Oh Rus'' [Russia], whither art thou hurtling?"
Dostoevsky''s The Brothers Karamazov, whose long chapter "The Grand Inquisitor" is a gripping, haunting, mystifying parable that is often studied on its own, but that is all the more powerful in this great novel, which addresses faith, doubt, redemption, and other timeless themes.
The Golden Age and After
The central core of the course covers the great golden age of Russian literature, a period in the 19th century when Russia''s writers equaled or surpassed the achievements of the much older literary cultures of Western Europe. The age commenced with Pushkin, developed with the fantastic and grotesque tales of Gogol'', and grew to full flower with Dostoevsky and Tolstoy?"who at the time were considered in Europe to be lesser writers than their talented contemporary Turgenev. As the 20th century approached, Chekhov''s exquisitely understated plays and stories symbolized the sunset of the golden age.
Gorky straddled the next transformation, linking the turmoil preceding the Russian Revolution with the political oppression that affected all artists in the newly established Soviet Union from the 1920s on. You examine the brilliant revolutionary poet Maiakovsky; the novelist Sholokhov, who portrayed the revolution as a tragedy for the Cossack people; the satirist Zoshchenko, who used Soviet society as food for parody; and Pasternak, who produced beautiful poems and a single extraordinary novel. Your survey ends with Solzhenitsyn, who became the most influential literary voice speaking out against the tyranny of the Soviet system.
Inside, Outside, and Behind the Scenes
Professor Weil uses intriguing details to bring these authors and their works to life. For example, readers of English translations are probably unaware of the symbolic names that Russian writers routinely give their characters, names that are especially evocative in Russian:
Roskol''nikov, the protagonist of Crime and Punishment, is named after the term for "schism," signifying a person who is separating himself from society. Dostoevsky gives other characters names that mean "mud puddle" and "intelligence," again, representing the person''s inner nature.
Iurii Zhivago, the hero of Doctor Zhivago, has a family name that is an older Russian form of the word "alive." Pasternak uses a grammatical case that emphasizes the animate nature of the noun, signifying life as it should be experienced.
In ad***ion *****ch internal details that enrich your understanding of the text, Professor Weil also points you to outside resources, from films and operas to recommended attractions that you may wish to see if you travel to Russia:
In order to get a sense of the powerful rhythms of Pushkin''s masterpiece Eugene Onegin, readers who don''t know Russian can turn to Tchaikovsky''s famous operatic adaptation, which magnificently catches the meter and texture of the poem.
A trip to Moscow should include a visit to Tolstoy''s house, now preserved as a museum. There you will get a vivid sense of the contradictions in this man''s life?"in the marked contrast between the comfortable Victorian furnishings preferred by his wife and family and the Spartan austerity in which he closeted himself to write, a style that came increasingly to define his life.
Professor Weil also recounts behind-the-scenes stories, many of which relate to his own experiences in Russia. These anecdotes add a new dimension to your appreciation of the works covered in this course:
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Solzhenitsyn''s moving novella about life in a Soviet forced labor camp, might never have appeared in print had not the mercurial Soviet premier Khrushchev found the story spellbinding. After reading the manuscript, Khrushchev admitted that it was one of the few literary works that he had managed to finish without sticking himself with pins to stay awake. The resulting publication stunned the Soviet reading public and the world.
"The History of an Illness," a short story by Zoshchenko, gently lampoons the Soviet health care system, with which Professor Weil has personal experience from his visits to the country. He describes some of the maddening features of Soviet medicine, including a propensity to treat every illness with vodka.
Course Lecture Titles
1. Origins of Russian Literature
2. The Church and the Folk in Old Kiev
3. Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, 1799?"1837
4. Exile, Rustic Seclusion, and Onegin
5. December?Ts Uprising and Two Poets Meet
6. A Poet Contrasts Talent versus Mediocrity
7. St. Petersburg Glorified and Death Embraced
8. Nikolai Vasil?Tevich Gogol?T, 1809?"1852
9. Russian Grotesque?"Overcoats to Dead Souls
10. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, 1821?"1881
11. Near Mortality, Prison, and an Underground
12. Second Wife and a Great Crime Novel Begins
13. Inside the Troubled Mind of a Criminal
14. The Generation of the Karamazovs
15. The Novelistic Presence of Christ and Satan
16. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, 1828?"1910
17. Tale of Two Cities and a Country Home
18. Family Life Meets Military Life
19. Vengeance Is Mine, Saith the Lord
20. Family Life Makes a Comeback
21. Tolstoy the Preacher
22. Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, 1818?"1883
23. The Stresses between Two Generations
24. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, 1860?"1904
25. M. Gorky (Aleksei M. Peshkov), 1868?"1936
26. Literature and Revolution
27. The Tribune?"Vladimir Maiakovsky, 1893?"1930
28. The Revolution Makes a U-Turn
29. Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, 1905?"1984
30. Revolutions and Civil War
31. Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko, 1895?"1958
32. Among the Godless?"Religion and Family Life
33. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, 1890?"1960
34. The Poet In and Beyond Society
35. Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, Born 1918
36. The Many Colors of Russian Literature
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81 Classic Poems (Audiobook)
Performed by Alexander Scourby, Bramwell Fletcher, and Nancy Wickwire
Unabridged Fiction - 2 COMPACT DISCS - 2 hours, 20 minutes
Publisher, Audio Partners (September 1993)
An anthology of classic poetry from 39 British and American poets.
Anonymous Early Song:
The Cuckoo Song
Sir Thomas Wyatt:
Whoso List to Hunt
Sir Walter Raleigh:
The Nymph?Ts Reply to the Shepherd
The Passionate Man?Ts Pilgrimage
Sir Philip Sidney:
Sonnet 1 from Astrophel and Stella
Christopher Marlowe:
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
William Shakespeare:
Sonnet 18 - Shall I compare thee to a summer?Ts day?
Sonnet 29 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men?Ts eyes
Sonnet 116 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Sonnet 129 - Th?Texpense of spirit in a waste of shame
Thomas Campion:
When to Her Lute Corina Sings
Rose-cheeked Laura
There is a Garden in Her Face
John Dunne:
Song - Go and catch a falling star
The Sun Rising
Sonnet 10 from Holy Sonnets - Death, be not proud
Ben Johnson:
Song: To Celia
Robert Herrick:
The Argument of His Book
Delight in Disorder
To the Virgins to Make Much of Time
Upon Julia?Ts Clothes
George Herbert:
The Collar
The Pulley
Love (III)
John Milton:
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent (a.k.a. On His Blindness)
John Suckling:
Song - Why so pale and wan, fond lover?
Out upon It! (aka The Constant Lover)
Richard Lovelace:
To Althea, from Prison
Andrew Marvell:
To His Coy Mistress
The Definition of Love
Henry Vaughan:
The Retreat
John Dryden:
A Song for St. Cecilia?Ts Day
Thomas Gray:
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
William Blake:
From Poetical Sketches:
Song
From Songs of Innocence:
Introduction
The Lamb
From Songs of Experience:
The Tyger
Robert Burns:
To a Mouse
A Red, Red Rose
William Wordsworth:
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
My Heart Leaps Up
The World Is Too Much With Us
Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
Kubla Khan
George Gordon, Lord Byron:
She Walks in Beauty
When We Two Parted
Percy Bysshe Shelley:
Ode to the West Wind
To a Skylark
Adonais (stanzas 1, 39, 54, and 55)
John Keats:
On First Looking into Chapman?Ts Homer
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Bright Star
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Concord Hymn
The Rhodora
Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
Sonnets from the Portuguese: 1, 43
Edgar Allan Poe:
To Helen
The City in the Sea
Annabel Lee
Alfred, Lord Tennyson:
Songs from The Princess
The Splendor Falls
Tears, Idle Tears
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
Alfred, Lord Tennyson:
The Eagle
Crossing the Bar
Robert Browning: My Last Duchess
Home-Thoughts from Abroad
Walt Whitman:
Song of Myself (parts 1, 6, 21 and 31)
O Captain! My Captain!
Matthew Arnold:
Dover Beach
Emily Dickinson:
303 - The Soul selects her own Society
986 - A narrow Fellow in the Grass
Christina Rossetti:
Up-Hill
Algernon Charles Swinburne:
The Garden of Proserpine
Thomas Hardy:
The Darkling Thrush
Gerard Manley Hopkins:
Pied Beauty
Alfred Edward Housman:
Lovliest of Tress, the Cherry Now
With Rue My Heart Is Laden
William Butler Yeats:
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Wild Swans at Coole
About The Readers:
Alexander Scourby
Veteran stage and film actor, distinguished himself as narrator of many television specials, most
notably ''The Body Human.'' He recorded more than 500 books for the blind for the Library Of Congress
before his death. Respected critics say that he has provived us with the finest reading in America.
Nancy Wickwire
...was featured for two seasons in the Stratford (Conn.) Shakespeare Festival and has played the
female lead in all of Shakespeare''s plays. She regularly appears in key roles on radio and
television. She is particularly proud of having been a member of the original company that presented
Dylan Thomas''s play for voices Under Milkwood.
Bramwell Fletcher
Known to many as Professor Higgins in My Fair Lady, has over 30 years in the theater starting with the famous Shakespeare Company of Stratford-on-Avon. Primarily a stage actor, his role in My Fair Lady is the thirtieth leading role he has played during the past two decades. His personal love of poetry is reflected in his sensitive reading.
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Dante''s Divine Comedy - TTC Courseversion: unabridged
format: mp3
bitrate: 48 kbps
runtime: 12:13:50
read by: William R. Cook, Ronald B. Herzman
Lecture Description
(24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Course No. 287
Taught by William R. Cook, Ronald B. Herzman

Two gifted teachers share the fruit of two lifetimes'' worth of historical and literary expertise in this introduction to one of the greatest works ever written.
One of the most profound and satisfying of all poems, the Divine Comedy (or Commedia) of Dante Alighieri (1265?"1321) is a book for life.
In a brilliantly constructed narrative of his imaginary guided pilgrimage through the three realms of the Christian afterlifê?"hell, purgatory, and heaven?"Dante accomplished a literary task of astonishing complexity.
? He created an unforgettable gallery of characters.
? He poetically explored a host of concerns both universal and particular, timely and timeless.
? He tapped the combined riches of the biblical and classical tra***ions in a synthesis that forever placed Western writers in his debt as they tried to build on his foundation.
James Joyce might have been speaking for those writers when he exclaimed, "Dante is my spiritual food!"
Your Guides on Dante''s Journey
Professors William R. Cook and Ronald B. Herzman are recipients of the Medieval Academy of America''s first-ever CARA Award for Excellence in Teaching Medieval Studies.
The skills that earned that award are clearly reflected in these lectures, which provide a rich context against which to appreciate Dante''s writing.
You will learn:
? Invaluable background information on Dante''s life and times
? Why Dante wrote the Commedia
? How to approach the various English e***ions available.
As Professors Cook and Herzman guide you along the journey portrayed in the Commedia, you will learn how each part of the poem is connected to what has come before. You will see Dante "raising the stakes" as each of the questions with which he begins the poem are posed at ever deeper levels of development as the journey continues.
By the time your own journey through these lectures is completed, you will learn why Dante''s pilgrimage is an exceedingly enriching experience for anyone who chooses to accompany him.
And you will understand why the Commedia is not a puzzle to be solved or a book to be read and put aside. It is a mystery whose beauty and power can be enjoyed for the rest of your life.
01. Reading the Poem?"Issues and E***ions
02. A Poet and His City?"Dante''s Florence
03. Literary Antecedents, I
04. Literary Antecedents, II
05. ?oAbandon Every Hope, All You Who Enter?
06. The Never-Ending Storm
07. Heretics
08. The Seventh Circlê?"The Violent
09. The Sin of Simony
10. The False Counselors
11. The Ultimate Evil
12. The Seven-Story Mountain
13. Purgatory''s Waiting Room
14. The Sin of Pride
15. The Vision to Freedom
16. Homage to Virgil
17. Dante''s New Guide
18. Ascending the Spheres
19. An Emperor Speaks
20. The Circle of the Sun?"Saints and Sages
21. A Mission Revealed?"Encounter with an Ancestor
22. Can a Pagan Be Saved?
23. Faith, Hope, Love, and the Mystic Empyrean
24. "In My End Is My Beginning"
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Văn học Nga thế kỷ 19. Toàn bài giảng về các tác phẩm nổi tiếng thui
Giants of Russian Literature - TMS Lecture
Russian literature of the 19th century is among the richest, most profound, and most human tra***ions in the world. This course explores this tra***ion by focusing on four giants: Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and Anton Chekhov. Their works had an enormous impact on Russian understanding of the human con***ion. And, just as importantly, these works have been one of Russia?Ts most significant exports: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov have become part of our literary heritage. And our understanding of the novel is based in large part on the masterpieces of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, while Chekhov has defined modern notions of the short story. In this course, Knapp acquaints you with the authors, their lives and their times, and their most important works.
Course Syllabus:
Lecture 1 Fiction, Love, and Death
Lecture 2 Ivan Turgenev: A Russian Novelist at Home and Abroad; Relations in Fathers and Sons
Lecture 3 Bridging the Generation Gap in Turgenev?Ts Fathers and Sons: Love and Death
Lecture 4 Fyodor Dostoevsky: Writing for Life
Lecture 5 In and Out of the Underground (A Reading of Dostoevsky?Ts Notes from the Underground)
Lecture 6 Calculating Murder in Dostoevsky?Ts Crime and Punishment
Lecture 7 The Power of Compassion in Dostoevsky?Ts Crime and Punishment
Lecture 8 Leo Tolstoy and the Search for Meaning in Life
Lecture 9 Entering the Labyrinth of Tolstoy?Ts Anna Karenina
Lecture 10 Anna Karenina and the Tangled Skein of Plot
Lecture 11 Love and Death in Tolstoy?Ts Anna Karenina
Lecture 12 Anton Chekhov: Writer, Doctor, Humanist
Lecture 13 Chekhovian Compassion: Revisions of Peasant Life and Adulterous Love
Lecture 14 Love and Death and the Russian Point of View
Professor Liza Knapp
Columbia University
Courses: Giants of Russian Literature: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov
Biography:
Liza Knapp teaches and writes about the Russian classics, both within the Russian context and in relation to their counterparts in English, French, and American literature. Liza Knapp taught for many years at the University of California at Berkeley and now teaches at Columbia University. She wrote The Annihilation of Inertia: Dostoevsky and Metaphysics, e***ed a critical companion to Dostoevsky?Ts The Idiot, and coe***ed Approaches to Teaching Anna Karenina. She is finishing Dostoevsky and the Novel of the Accidental Family, a study of Dostoevsky?Ts unique approach to the form of the novel. She is also at work on a study about Virginia Woolf?Ts ?oRussian point of view,? which examines the impact of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, and Chekhov on Woolf?Ts work.
In the summer of 2004, Professor Knapp served as the online ?oliterary expert? for Oprah Winfrey?Ts Book Club selection Anna Karenina.
Liza Knapp was born in New York City. She graduated from Harvard College and received her Ph.D. in Russian literature from Columbia University.
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Masterpieces of Short Fiction
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24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture
Course No. 2317
Taught by Michael Krasny
San Francisco State University
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
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Imagine that, in one sitting, you could enter a world of imagination and witness the triumphs, tragedies, errors, and epiphanies that arise in the lives of ordinary and extraordinary people. Imagine that, in the time it takes to run an errand, you could gain remarkable insights about the true nature of humanityõ?"its dark secrets and its saving graces. Imagine that, in the space of an hour, you could do this instead:
õ? Visit a Harlem jazz club and hear the inspired improvisations of gifted bluesmen
õ? Attend a glittering Parisian ball bedecked in borrowed jewels
õ? Confront a dangerous criminal on a lonely backwoods road
õ? Journey back to colonial America and encounter a coven of witches
This enlightening experience awaits you in Masterpieces of Short Fiction, a 24-lecture course that samples two centuries'' worth of great short stories written by some of the acknowledged masters of the genre, including Anton Chekhov, D. H. Lawrence, Flannery O''Connor, Franz Kafka, and Ernest Hemingway.
Dr. Michael Krasny, Professor of English at San Francisco State University and the host of KQED''s award-winning news and public affairs radio program, Forum, guides you deep into 23 renowned works, illuminating the remarkable variety, breathtaking artistry, and profound themes to be found in these miniature masterpieces.
The Art of the Present Moment
Although short stories have been around throughout history in the form of myths, fables, and legends, the short story as a distinct art form arose only during the 19th century, just in time for the busy age we all live in.
More than simply a shorter version of the novel, the short story is a unique and rewarding literary form in itself. Great short fiction offers something you can find nowhere else: a world in miniature faithfully captured by the author''s mastery of character, plot, setting, image, and theme. The time it takes to read a short story may be brief, but its impact lasts much longer.
"Short story writers see by the light of the flash," says author and Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer. "Theirs is the art of the only thing that one can be sure ofõ?"the present moment."
Encounter the Ordinary and the Extraordinary
As Masterpieces of Short Fiction demonstrates, however, that flash can reveal many different kinds of truths. For example, in Edgar Allan Poe''s "The Cask of Amontillado," an embittered nobleman entombs his rival in a dank crypt, while in Grace Paley''s "An Interest in Life," a deserted housewife maintains her good humor and hope while trying to raise her children.
Throughout the course, you encounter both of these extremesõ?"the extraordinary and the ordinary moments of lifeõ?"while you examine the craft of short fiction.
On one end of the spectrum, you see how great authors use the short story to capture the experience of the common man and woman. From Gogol''s 19th-century underdog, the Russian scribe Akaky in "The Overcoat," to Raymond Carver''s sympathetic portrait of a "plain man" in "Cathedral," short story writers use their remarkable powers of observation to record and often celebrate the unsung lives of ordinary people.
But you also sample the exotic and unusual as well, whether in Franz Kafka''s satirical tale of an artist who turns starvation into a work of performance art ("A Hunger Artist") or in Gabriel Garcưa MĂrquez''s Magical Realist allegory about a winged man who falls to Earth in a Latin American village ("A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings").
Each story, whether drawn from the closely observed details of everyday life or a richly imagined land of fantasy, offers you an exquisite and unique portrait of humanity.
How to Recognize a Masterpiece
How can stories that are so brief have such a strong emotional impact? What makes each of the works in this course a masterpiece? In Masterpieces of Short Fiction, you not only enjoy great literature, but you also develop an appreciation for how these great authors elevate the craft of storytelling into an art form.
In each lecture, Professor Krasny, who holds an Award of Excellence from the National Association of Humanities Educators, focuses on a single story written by a master of the genre. Using examples from the stories themselves, he illuminates each author''s virtuosic development of character, plot, setting, imagery, theme, and language. As you progress through the course, you hone your ability to recognize and assess these elements.
You also learn fascinating facts about the author''s lives and the artistic and historical contexts that helped shape these great works:
õ? "Young Goodman Brown" reflects Nathaniel Hawthorne''s stern Puritan upbringing and his guilt about his ancestors'' participation in the Salem witch trials.
õ? Like the main character of "My First Goose," Isaac Babel was a Jew who nevertheless rode with the notoriously anti-Semitic Cossacks as they undertook violent pogroms in Jewish neighborhoods and villages.
õ? The terse literary style in Ernest Hemingway''s "The Killers" (later dubbed "cablese" because it imitated the conciseness of telegram writing) was developed during the writer''s early stint as a war correspondent.
õ? Shirley Jackson''s depiction of the village in "The Lottery" reflects her own feeling of isolation living as a progressive intellectual in a close-minded New England town.
õ? Traces of James Baldwin''s evangelical background remain in the poetic and biblical language of stories like "Sonny''s Blues."
Discover the "Literary Form of Our Age"
Since 1970, Professor Krasny has taught courses on a wealth of subjects, including the short story, modern and contemporary American literature, ethnic American literature, transatlantic modern drama, and literary theory. Drawing on his considerable scholarly background, he provides you with an "insider''s view" of the craft of short fiction that is as rare as it is valuable.
Join him on this survey of short fiction''s hallmark works from its origins in the 19th century to its confrontation with the issues of the late 20th century and discover why this specific genre, in the words of Nadine Gordimer, is the "literary form of our age."
Course Lecture Titles
õ? 1. Excavationsõ?"Poe''s "The Cask of Amontillado"
õ? 2. Hawthorne''s "Goodman Brown" and Lost Faith
õ? 3. Under Gogol''s "Overcoat"
õ? 4. Maupassant''s "The Necklace"õ?"Real and Paste
õ? 5. Chekhov, Love, and "The Lady with the Dog"
õ? 6. James in the Art Studioõ?""The Real Thing"
õ? 7. Epiphany and the Modern in Joyce''s "Araby"
õ? 8. Babel''s "My First Goose"õ?"Violent Concision
õ? 9. Male Initiationõ?"Hemingway''s "The Killers"
õ? 10. Kafka''s Parableõ?""A Hunger Artist"
õ? 11. Lawrence''s Blue-eyed "Rocking-Horse Winner"
õ? 12. Female Initiationõ?"Mansfield''s "Party" õ? 13. Jackson''s Shocking Vision in "The Lottery"
õ? 14. O''Connor''s "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
õ? 15. Paley on Survival and "An Interest in Life"
õ? 16. The "Enormous Wings" of Garcưa MĂrquez
õ? 17. A New World Fableõ?"Malamud''s "The Jewbird"
õ? 18. Baldwin''s "Sonny''s Blues"õ?"A Harlem Song
õ? 19. Updike''s "A & P"õ?"The Choice of Gallantry
õ? 20. Kingston''s Warrior Mythõ?""No Name Woman"
õ? 21. Atwood''s "Happy Endings" as Metafiction
õ? 22. Gordimer''s "Moment Before" Apartheid Fell
õ? 23. Carver''s "Cathedral"õ?"A Story that Levitates
õ? 24. Why Short Fiction Masterpieces?
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