Understanding literature and life drama, poetry and narrative
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- ISBN: 1598030973 :
- ISBN: 9781598030976
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sound recording
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32 sound discs (ca. 1920 min.) : digital, + 6 course guidebooks (22 cm.) - Publisher: Springfield, VA : Teaching Co., [1995]
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Formatted Contents Note: | Why literature : civilization and its discontents -- Oedipus the King and the nature of Greek tragedy -- Fate and free will -- Self-making vs. self-discovery in Oedipus -- The interpretive afterlife of Oedipus -- Shakespeare's Othello -- Poison in the ear, or the dismantling of Othello -- Rethinking Othello -- French theater and Moliere's comedy of vices -- Tartuffe and varieties of imposture -- Religious hypocrisy -- Georg Buchner : physician, revolutionary, playwright -- Woyzeck the proletarian murderer : "unaccommodated man" -- Woyzeck and visionary theater --Strindberg's Father -- Marriage : theatrical agon or Darwinian struggle? -- The Father : from theater of power to power of theater -- Beckett's Godot -- Beckett and the comedy of undoing -- Godot absent -- Study of literature -- Shakespeare's Sonnets : the glory of poetry -- The shape of love and death in Shakespeare's Sonnets -- Innocence Innocence and Experience in William Blake -- Blakean fables of desire -- Blake : visionary poet -- Whitman and the making of an American bard --"Myself" as Whitman's nineteenth century American hero -- Form and flux, openness and anxiety in Whitman's poetry -- Emily Dickinson : the prophetic voice from the margins -- Dickinson and the poetry of consciousness -- Dickinson : death and beyond -- Baudelaire : the setting of the romantic sun -- Baudelaire's poetry of modernism and metropolis -- Robert Frost : the wisdom of the people -- Frost : the darker view -- Wallace Stevens and the Stevens and the modernist movement -- Stevens and the post-romantic imagination -- Adrienne Rich and the poetry of protest -- Rich's project : diving into the wreck of Western culture -- The lives of the word : reading today -- Chretien de Troyes' Yvain : growing up in the Middle Ages -- Yvain's theme : ignorant armies clash by night -- The Picaresque novel : satire, filth and hustling -- Francisco Quevedo's Swindler : the word on the street -- Daniel Defoe's plain style and the new world order -- Moll Flanders and the self-made woman -- Matter and spirit in Defoe -- Dickens : the novel as moral institution -- Pip's progress : from blacksmith to snob and back -- Riddles of identity in Great Expectations -- Charlotte Bronte and the Bildungsroman -- Jane Eyre : Victorian bad girl makes good -- The madwoman in the attic -- Melville's "Bartleby" and the genesis of character -- "Bartleby" : Christ on Wall Street? -- Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis" : sacrifice or power game? -- Kafka's "In the penal colony" : the writing machine -- Faulkner's "The Bear" : stories of black and white -- "The Bear" : American myth or American history? -- Tracking the bear, or learning to read -- Alice Walker's Celie : the untold story -- Ideology as vision in The Color Purple -- Reconceiving center and margin. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Lecturer: Arnold Weinstein. |
Summary, etc.: | Pt. 1 begins with Sophocles' Oedipus the King, and continues through Shakespeare and Moliere, on to the realist and naturalist work of the 19th century to close with Beckett's Waiting for Godot. |
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Subject: | Literature History and criticism Drama History and criticism Poetry History and criticism Fiction History and criticism |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Part | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | GC CD WEI pt.1-3 BOOKLET (Text) | course book pt. 1-3 | 36123128042940 | Great Courses | Available | - |
Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | GC CD WEI pt.1 (Text) | pt. 1 | 36123128042916 | Great Courses | Available | - |
Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | GC CD WEI pt.2 (Text) | pt. 2 | 36123128042932 | Great Courses | Available | - |
Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | GC CD WEI pt.3 (Text) | pt. 3 | 36123128042924 | Great Courses | Available | - |
Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | GC CD WEI pt.4-6 BOOKLET (Text) | course book pt. 4-6 | 36123128045364 | Great Courses | Available | - |
Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | GC CD WEI pt.4 (Text) | pt. 4 | 36123128043625 | Great Courses | Available | - |
Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | GC CD WEI pt.5 (Text) | pt. 5 | 36123128043518 | Great Courses | Available | - |
Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | GC CD WEI pt.6 (Text) | pt. 6 | 36123128043450 | Great Courses | Available | - |
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100 | 1 | . | ‡aWeinstein, Arnold. |
245 | 1 | 0. | ‡aUnderstanding literature and life ‡h[sound recording] : ‡bdrama, poetry and narrative / ‡c[Arnold Weinstein]. |
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505 | 0 | . | ‡aWhy literature : civilization and its discontents -- Oedipus the King and the nature of Greek tragedy -- Fate and free will -- Self-making vs. self-discovery in Oedipus -- The interpretive afterlife of Oedipus -- Shakespeare's Othello -- Poison in the ear, or the dismantling of Othello -- Rethinking Othello -- French theater and Moliere's comedy of vices -- Tartuffe and varieties of imposture -- Religious hypocrisy -- Georg Buchner : physician, revolutionary, playwright -- Woyzeck the proletarian murderer : "unaccommodated man" -- Woyzeck and visionary theater --Strindberg's Father -- Marriage : theatrical agon or Darwinian struggle? -- The Father : from theater of power to power of theater -- Beckett's Godot -- Beckett and the comedy of undoing -- Godot absent -- Study of literature -- Shakespeare's Sonnets : the glory of poetry -- The shape of love and death in Shakespeare's Sonnets -- Innocence Innocence and Experience in William Blake -- Blakean fables of desire -- Blake : visionary poet -- Whitman and the making of an American bard --"Myself" as Whitman's nineteenth century American hero -- Form and flux, openness and anxiety in Whitman's poetry -- Emily Dickinson : the prophetic voice from the margins -- Dickinson and the poetry of consciousness -- Dickinson : death and beyond -- Baudelaire : the setting of the romantic sun -- Baudelaire's poetry of modernism and metropolis -- Robert Frost : the wisdom of the people -- Frost : the darker view -- Wallace Stevens and the Stevens and the modernist movement -- Stevens and the post-romantic imagination -- Adrienne Rich and the poetry of protest -- Rich's project : diving into the wreck of Western culture -- The lives of the word : reading today -- Chretien de Troyes' Yvain : growing up in the Middle Ages -- Yvain's theme : ignorant armies clash by night -- The Picaresque novel : satire, filth and hustling -- Francisco Quevedo's Swindler : the word on the street -- Daniel Defoe's plain style and the new world order -- Moll Flanders and the self-made woman -- Matter and spirit in Defoe -- Dickens : the novel as moral institution -- Pip's progress : from blacksmith to snob and back -- Riddles of identity in Great Expectations -- Charlotte Bronte and the Bildungsroman -- Jane Eyre : Victorian bad girl makes good -- The madwoman in the attic -- Melville's "Bartleby" and the genesis of character -- "Bartleby" : Christ on Wall Street? -- Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis" : sacrifice or power game? -- Kafka's "In the penal colony" : the writing machine -- Faulkner's "The Bear" : stories of black and white -- "The Bear" : American myth or American history? -- Tracking the bear, or learning to read -- Alice Walker's Celie : the untold story -- Ideology as vision in The Color Purple -- Reconceiving center and margin. |
511 | 0 | . | ‡aLecturer: Arnold Weinstein. |
520 | . | ‡aPt. 1 begins with Sophocles' Oedipus the King, and continues through Shakespeare and Moliere, on to the realist and naturalist work of the 19th century to close with Beckett's Waiting for Godot. | |
650 | 0. | ‡aLiterature ‡xHistory and criticism. | |
650 | 0. | ‡aDrama ‡xHistory and criticism. | |
650 | 0. | ‡aPoetry ‡xHistory and criticism. | |
650 | 0. | ‡aFiction ‡xHistory and criticism. | |
710 | 2 | . | ‡aTeaching Company. |
830 | 0. | ‡aGreat courses (Compact disc) | |
914 | . | ‡aMARS | |
916 | . | ‡a839458 | |
919 | 2. | ‡c839458 | |
994 | . | ‡aC0 ‡bBIB | |
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