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Masterworks of early 20th-century literature / David Thorburn.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Great courses | The great courses | The Great CoursesPublication details: Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., c2007.Description: 2 v. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 1598033239
  • 9781598033236
Other title:
  • Masterworks of early twentieth-century literature
Uniform titles:
  • The Great Courses
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370
LOC classification:
  • LB 14.6 T487m 2007
Contents:
v.1. Lecture 1. Road map : modernism and moral ambiguity ; Lecture 2. How to read fiction : Joyce's "An encounter" ; Lecture 3. Defining modernism : Monet's cathedral ; Lecture 4. Defining modernism : beyond Impressionism ; Lecture 5. "The man who would be king" : imperial fools ; Lecture 6. "Heart of darkness" : Europe's Kurtz -- Lecture 7. "Heart of darkness" : the drama of the telling ; Lecture 8. "The shadow-line" : unheroic heroes ; Lecture 9. "The good soldier" : the limits of irony ; Lecture 10. "The good soldier" : killed by kindness ; Lecture 11. Lawrence (and Joyce) : sex in modern fiction ; Lecture 12. "Horse dealer's daughter" : a shimmer within -- v. 2. Lecture 13. The metamorphosis : uneasy dreams ; Lecture 14. Dubliners : the music of the ordinary ; Lecture 15. Ulysses : Joyce's Homer ; Lecture 16. Ulysses : the incongruity principle ; Lecture 17. To the lighthouse : life stands still here ; Lecture 18. To the lighthouse : that horrid skull again -- Lecture 19. Isaac Babel : Jew and Cossack ; Lecture 20. Isaac Babel : Odessa's Homer ; Lecture 21. Faulkner's world : our frantic steeeplechase ; Lecture 22. Absalom, Absalom! : the fragile thread ; Lecture 23. Pale fire : modern or postmodern? ; Lecture 24. The moral vision of modern fiction.
Summary: Explore the modernism literary movement with Professor David Thorburn. See how modernist authors created new techniques to reflect an increasingly complex post-Victorian world. This tradition includes some of the greatest authors the world has know--Joyce, Faulkner, Conrad, Woolf, Kafka.
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"Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Cover.

v.1. Lecture 1. Road map : modernism and moral ambiguity ; Lecture 2. How to read fiction : Joyce's "An encounter" ; Lecture 3. Defining modernism : Monet's cathedral ; Lecture 4. Defining modernism : beyond Impressionism ; Lecture 5. "The man who would be king" : imperial fools ; Lecture 6. "Heart of darkness" : Europe's Kurtz -- Lecture 7. "Heart of darkness" : the drama of the telling ; Lecture 8. "The shadow-line" : unheroic heroes ; Lecture 9. "The good soldier" : the limits of irony ; Lecture 10. "The good soldier" : killed by kindness ; Lecture 11. Lawrence (and Joyce) : sex in modern fiction ; Lecture 12. "Horse dealer's daughter" : a shimmer within -- v. 2. Lecture 13. The metamorphosis : uneasy dreams ; Lecture 14. Dubliners : the music of the ordinary ; Lecture 15. Ulysses : Joyce's Homer ; Lecture 16. Ulysses : the incongruity principle ; Lecture 17. To the lighthouse : life stands still here ; Lecture 18. To the lighthouse : that horrid skull again -- Lecture 19. Isaac Babel : Jew and Cossack ; Lecture 20. Isaac Babel : Odessa's Homer ; Lecture 21. Faulkner's world : our frantic steeeplechase ; Lecture 22. Absalom, Absalom! : the fragile thread ; Lecture 23. Pale fire : modern or postmodern? ; Lecture 24. The moral vision of modern fiction.

Explore the modernism literary movement with Professor David Thorburn. See how modernist authors created new techniques to reflect an increasingly complex post-Victorian world. This tradition includes some of the greatest authors the world has know--Joyce, Faulkner, Conrad, Woolf, Kafka.

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