Grant L Voth
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The two gentlemen of Verona: A study guide for the Shakespeare plays (The Shakespeare plays) (1984) 1 eksemplar
Down and Out in Paris and London 1 eksemplar
A Skeptic’s Way ; Gogol’s Dead Souls 1 eksemplar
The Monomyths of Rank and Campbell 1 eksemplar
Rushdie’s “Haroun and the Sea of Stories” 1 eksemplar
Borges’ “Labyrinths” 1 eksemplar
Beckett’s Plays 1 eksemplar
Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” 1 eksemplar
Naguib Mahfouz’s “ Cairo Trilogy” 1 eksemplar
Kawabata Yasunari’s “Snow Country” 1 eksemplar
Faulkner - Two Stories and a Novel 1 eksemplar
Warren’s All the King’s Men 1 eksemplar
Anna Akhmatova’s “Requiem” 1 eksemplar
Brecht’s “The Good Woman of Setzuan” 1 eksemplar
Pirandello’s “Six Characters” 1 eksemplar
Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” 1 eksemplar
Joyce’s “Dubliners” 1 eksemplar
Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past” 1 eksemplar
Higuchi Ichiyo’s “Child’s Play” 1 eksemplar
Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street 1 eksemplar
Zusak's The Book Thief 1 eksemplar
Kushner’s Angels in America 1 eksemplar
McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe 1 eksemplar
Basho, The Narrow Road of the Interior 1 eksemplar
Munro, Short Story Selections 1 eksemplar
Jataka, Story Selections 1 eksemplar
Satrapi, “Persepolis” 1 eksemplar
Hersey, “Hiroshima” 1 eksemplar
Chopin, "The Awakening" 1 eksemplar
Melville, "Billy Budd" 1 eksemplar
Chekhov, Short Stories 1 eksemplar
Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem 1 eksemplar
Lu Xun, Short Story Selections 1 eksemplar
Cather, "Alexander's Bridge" 1 eksemplar
Skeptics and Tigers : Martel's Life of Pi 1 eksemplar
Moore and Gibbons's Watchmen 1 eksemplar
Le Carre's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 1 eksemplar
James's Death of an Expert Witness 1 eksemplar
Ibsen and Chekhov - Realist Drama 1 eksemplar
Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita 1 eksemplar
Ravindranath Tagore’s Stories and Poems 1 eksemplar
Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary” 1 eksemplar
Dickinson’s Poetry 1 eksemplar
Stories and Storytellers 1 eksemplar
Virgil’s “Aeneid” 1 eksemplar
Greek Tragedy 1 eksemplar
Classical Chinese Literature 1 eksemplar
Homer’s “Odyssey” 1 eksemplar
Homer’s “Iliad” 1 eksemplar
The Hebrew Bible 1 eksemplar
The “Epic of Gilgamesh” 1 eksemplar
The History of World Literature, Part 1 1 eksemplar
The New Testament 1 eksemplar
Great Mythologies of the World 1 eksemplar
Five Shakespeare Plays, Study Guide 1 eksemplar
The Titans in Greek Mythology 1 eksemplar
Bhagavad Gita 1 eksemplar
“Beowulf” 1 eksemplar
Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” 1 eksemplar
Cervantes’ “Don Quixote” 1 eksemplar
Dostoevsky’s “Notes from Underground” 1 eksemplar
Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A study guide for the Shakespeare plays (The Shakespeare plays) (1984) 1 eksemplar
Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin” 1 eksemplar
Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights” 1 eksemplar
Goethe’s “Faust” 1 eksemplar
Cao Xueqin’s “The Story of the Stone” 1 eksemplar
Voltaire’s “Candide” 1 eksemplar
Moliere’s Plays 1 eksemplar
Shakespeare 1 eksemplar
Indian Stories 1 eksemplar
The “Heptameron” 1 eksemplar
Wu-Ch’eng-en’s “Monkey” 1 eksemplar
“1001 Nights” 1 eksemplar
Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” 1 eksemplar
“Inferno” from “The Divine Comedy” 1 eksemplar
“The Tale of Genji” 1 eksemplar
Early Japanese Poetry 1 eksemplar
T’ang Poetry 1 eksemplar
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress 1 eksemplar
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Each of the 36 lectures focuses on a relatively short work of literature, one that can be read within one or a few sittings. The lectures introduce the works in the context of their authors, themes, nature, history, significance, and impact. The idea is that people with busy lives who lack the time to tackle larger works of literature by eminent writers of fiction can sample shorter works by such authors. Thus, readers not ready to try James Joyce's "Ulysses" will benefit from reading and learning about "The Dead", and those intimidated by Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying" can start with "Pantaloon in Black". The works presented span the 19th and 20th centuries, and include those from such authors as Austen, Melville, Kafka, Hemingway, Chopin, Wilde, Woolf, Proust, Munroe, and Stevenson, along with a few more modern authors.
I consider the series of lectures to be well- conceived and well- executed, and overall, a fine way to become acquainted with eminent authors and their works of literature. For several of the authors the particular short work selected offers an excellent introduction. For example, "Billy Budd" is a masterpiece of literature, and guided by the analysis of the lecturer (Gerald Voth), the new reader will likely be ready to try Melville's longer works (such as "Moby Dick"). Likewise, "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" is the most accessible and well-known of Stevenson's fiction, and a fine introduction to the new reader who has yet to experience "Treasure Island"
In some cases, the selection discussed will help the reader judge whether to continue with a given author's works. Notably, "A Country Doctor" is a good way to begin with work by Franz Kafka. Lecturer Arnold Weinstein helps guide the reader through strange imagery that would otherwise seem alien and off-putting. A reader who (despite Weinstein's analysis) finds the tale too confusing should probably stay away from "The Trial" or "The Castle".
In other cases, the selection analyzed is not typical of the author's other work. For example, Flaubert's "A Simple Heart" is (in my view) far less enjoyable than "Madame Bovary", and the quality of "Lady Susan" notwithstanding, I would recommend that it be read *after (not before) Jane Austen's novels. In still other cases, the short work selected is of lesser quality than an author's other work, a category in which I would include Hemingway's "Old Man and the Sea".
Likewise, one can question the omission of certain authors, my list of which would include Dickens, Forster, Maugham, Steinbeck, and Vonnegut. But tastes differ
Below is a list of the 36 works discussed, along with their authors.
1. Kafka, Country Doctor
2. Prevost, Manon Lescaut
3. Flaubert, A Simple Heart
4. Faulkner, Pantaloon in Black
5. Borges, Short Story Selections
6. Hemingway, Old Man & the Sea
7. O'Connor, Short Story Selections
8. Lagervist, The Sybil
9. Vesaas, The Ice Palace
10. Calvino, Invisible Cities
11. Duras, The Lover
12. Coetzee, Disgrace
13. Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
14. Austen, Lady Susan
15. Balzac, Girl with the Golden Eyes
16. Meredith, Modern Love
17. Huysmans Against the Grain
18. Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
19. Wilde, Portrait of Dorian Gray
20. Jame, Beast in the Jungle
21. Joyce, The Dead
22. Proust, Lemoin Affair
23. Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street
24. McEwan, On Chesil Beach
25. Cather, Alexander's Bridge
26. Lu Xun, Short Story Selections
27. Chopin, The Awakening
28. Melville, Billy Budd
29. McCullers, Ballad of the Sad Café
30. Chekhov, Short Story Selections
31. Hersey, Hiroshima
32. Satrapi, Persepolis
33. Jataka, Short Story Selections
34. Munro, Short Story Selections
35. Basho, Narrow Road of the Interior
36. Siljie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress… (mere)