TTC Audio - Masterpieces of Short Fiction
 

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TTC Audio - Masterpieces of Short Fiction
TTC | 2008 | Course No. 2317 | MP3 96KBps | 12 hrs 14 mins | 520MB

This enlightening experience awaits you in Masterpieces of Short Fiction, a 24-lecture course that samples two centuries' worth of great short stories written by some of the acknowledged masters of the genre, including Anton Chekhov, D. H. Lawrence, Flannery O'Connor, Franz Kafka, and Ernest Hemingway.

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Dr. Michael Krasny, Professor of English at San Francisco State University and the host of KQED's award-winning news and public affairs radio program, Forum, guides you deep into 23 renowned works, illuminating the remarkable variety, breathtaking artistry, and profound themes to be found in these miniature masterpieces.

Course Lecture Titles
01. Excavations—Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado"
02. Hawthorne's "Goodman Brown" and Lost Faith
03. Under Gogol's "Overcoat"
04. Maupassant's "The Necklace"—Real and Paste
05. Chekhov, Love, and "The Lady with the Dog"
06. James in the Art Studio—"The Real Thing"
07. Epiphany and the Modern in Joyce's "Araby"
08. Babel's "My First Goose"—Violent Concision
09. Male Initiation—Hemingway's "The Killers"
10. Kafka's Parable—"A Hunger Artist"
11. Lawrence's Blue-eyed "Rocking-Horse Winner"
12. Female Initiation—Mansfield's "Party"
13. Jackson's Shocking Vision in "The Lottery"
14. O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
15. Paley on Survival and "An Interest in Life"
16. The "Enormous Wings" of Garcia Marquez
17. A New World Fable—Malamud's "The Jewbird"
18. Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues"—A Harlem Song
19. Updike's "A & P"—The Choice of Gallantry
20. Kingston's Warrior Myth—"No Name Woman"
21. Atwood's "Happy Endings" as Metafiction
22. Gordimer's "Moment Before" Apartheid Fell
23. Carver's "Cathedral"—A Story that Levitates
24. Why Short Fiction Masterpieces?

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