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Masterpieces of short fiction [sound recording] / Michael Krasny.

Krasny, Michael, 1944- (Author). Teaching Company. (Added Author).

Summary:

"This course takes you on an exciting ride through an itinerary that samples 23 of the world's greatest short stories. The form of the genre, as well as the various ways in which it has evolved, is highlighted along the way with a display of the essential nuts and bolts of storytelling-- plot, character, setting, style, point of view, and theme. A mix of critical approaches will also be brought in to enhance analysis and interpretation and to explore some of the ways we judge and evaluate short fiction"--Page 1 (booklet).

Record details

  • ISBN: 1598034391
  • ISBN: 9781598034394
  • ISBN: 1598034413
  • ISBN: 9781598034417
  • Physical Description: 12 audio discs (12 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guidebook (iv, 139 pages ; 19 cm).
  • Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2008]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Literature & English language"--Container.
Compact discs.
The accompanying guidebook contains a timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part 1, Disc 1. Excavations: Poe's "The cask of Amontillado" ; Hawthorne's "Goodman Brown" and lost faith -- Disc 2. Under Gogol's "Overcoat" ; Maupassant's "The necklace" : real and paste -- Disc 3. Chekhov, love, and "The lady with the dog" ; James in the art studio : "The real thing" -- Disc 4. Epiphany and the modern in Joyce's "Araby" ; Babel's "My first goose" : violent concision -- Disc 5. Male initiation : Hemingway's "The killers" ; Kafka's parable : "A hunger artist" -- Disc 6. Lawrence's blue-eyed "Rocking-horse winner" ; Female initiation : Mansfield's "Party" -- Part 2, Disc 7. Jackson's shocking vision in "The lottery" ; O'Connor's "A good man is hard to find" -- Disc 8. Paley on survival and "An interest in life" ; The "Enormous wings" of Garcia Márquez -- Disc 9. A new world fable : Malamud's "The Jewbird" ; Baldwin's "Sonny's blues" : a Harlem song -- Disc 10. Updike's "A & P" : the choice of gallantry ; Kingston's warrior myth : "No name woman" -- Disc 11. Atwood's "Happy endings" as metafiction ; Gordimer's "Moment before" Apartheid fell -- Disc 12. Carver's "Cathedral" : a story that levitates ; Why short fiction masterpieces?
Participant or Performer Note:
Michael Krasny, lecturer.

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