Understanding Literature and Life: Drama, Poetry and Narrative (Audiobook)
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This course is an introduction to the major texts of Western culture.
Ranging from antiquity to the present, it places special emphasis on several of literature's most important aspects:
[list][*]The uniqueness of literary language
[*]The formal and generic conventions of literary production
[*]The position that literature occupies as a site for historical and ideological forces and conflicts
[*]The continuing human significance of the great works of the past and the present.
[/list]All too often, people fail to give the great books the attention they deserve.
They might feel locked out of these masterpieces because they believe themselves unequipped to savor their richness. Or they might feel that great literature has only some antiquarian or museum value.
[b]A Gratifying and Enlightening Experience[/b]
This course empowers you to enter into these great works of the past. Taught by an extraordinary scholar and educator, it is a gratifying experience that can widen your views on self and society in enduring ways.
Dr. Arnold Weinstein of Brown University has been honored as Brown's Best Teacher in the Humanities and has studied and taught at major universities all over the world.
His remarkable ability to make a writer's voice come alive makes this one of our most exciting literature courses. And he has made a point of creating a wide-ranging, enriching experience.
The course has been designed to exhibit not only the themes and techniques of great literature but also to expose both the power and limitations of several different analytic tools in assisting our understanding of these monuments of the human spirit, including:
[list][*]Feminism
[*]Marxism
[*]Freudianism
[*]Deconstruction
[*]Close reading.
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[hide=Course Lecture Titles][list][*]1. Why Literature—Civilization and Its Discontents
[*]2. Oedipus the King and the Nature of Greek Tragedy
[*]3. Fate and Free Will—Reading the Signs in Oedipus
[*]4. Self-making vs. Self-discovery in Oedipus
[*]5. The Interpretive Afterlife of Oedipus
[*]6. Shakespeare's Othello—Tragedy of Marriage and State
[*]7. Poison in the Ear, or the Dismantling of Othello
[*]8. Rethinking Othello—Race, Gender and Subjectivity
[*]9. French Theater and Moliere's Comedy of Vices
[*]10. Tartuffe and Varieties of Imposture
[*]11. Religious Hypocrisy—Beyond Comedy
[*]12. Georg Buchner—Physician, Revolutionary, Playwright
[*]13. Woyzeck the Proletarian Murderer—"Unaccommodated Man"
[*]14. Woyzeck and Visionary Theater
[*]15. Strindberg's Father—Patriarchy in Trouble
[*]16. Marriage—Theatrical Agon or Darwinian Struggle?
[*]17. The Father—From Theater of Power to Power of Theater
[*]18. Beckett's Godot—Chaplinesque or Post-nuclear?
[*]19. Beckett and the Comedy of Undoing
[*]20. Godot Absent—Didi and Gogo Present
[*]21. Study of Literature—Approaches, Encounters, Departures
[*]22. Shakespeare's Sonnets—The Glory of Poetry
[*]23. The Shape of Love and Death in Shakespeare's Sonnets
[*]24. Innocence and Experience in William Blake
[*]25. Blakean Fables of Desire
[*]26. Blake—Visionary Poet
[*]27. Whitman and the Making of an American Bard
[*]28. "Myself" as Whitman's Nineteenth-Century American Hero
[*]29. Form and Flux, Openness and Anxiety in Whitman's Poetry
[*]30. Emily Dickinson—The Prophetic Voice from the Margins
[*]31. Dickinson and the Poetry of Consciousness
[*]32. Dickinson—Death and Beyond
[*]33. Baudelaire—The Setting of the Romantic Sun
[*]34. Baudelaire's Poetry of Modernism and Metropolis
[*]35. Robert Frost—The Wisdom of the People
[*]36. Frost—The Darker View
[*]37. Wallace Stevens and the Modernist Movement
[*]38. Stevens and the Post-Romantic Imagination
[*]39. Adrienne Rich and the Poetry of Protest
[*]40. Rich's Project—Diving into the Wreck of Western Culture
[*]41. The Lives of the Word—Reading Today
[*]42. Chretien de Troyes' Yvain—Growing Up in the Middle Ages
[*]43. Yvain's Theme—Ignorant Armies Clash By Night
[*]44. The Picaresque Novel—Satire, Filth and Hustling
[*]45. Francisco Quevedo's Swindler—The Word on the Street
[*]46. Daniel Defoe's Plain Style and the New World Order
[*]47. Moll Flanders and the Self-made Woman
[*]48. Matter and Spirit in Defoe
[*]49. Dickens—The Novel as Moral Institution
[*]50. Pip's Progress—From Blacksmith to Snob and Back
[*]51. Riddles of Identity in Great Expectations
[*]52. Charlotte Bronte and the Bildungsroman
[*]53. Jane Eyre—Victorian Bad Girl Makes Good
[*]54. The Madwoman in the Attic—19th Century Bills Coming Due
[*]55. Melville's "Bartleby" and the Genesis of Character
[*]56. "Bartleby"—Christ on Wall Street?
[*]57. Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis"—Sacrifice or Power Game?
[*]58. Kafka's "In the Penal Colony"—The Writing Machine
[*]59. Faulkner's "The Bear"—Stories of White and Black
[*]60. "The Bear"—American Myth or American History?
[*]61. Tracking the Bear, or Learning to Read
[*]62. Alice Walker's Celie—The Untold Story
[*]63. Ideology as Vision in The Color Purple
[*]64. Reconceiving Center and Margin
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