CD Audiobook
The art of reading. Pt. 2 [sound recording] / Timothy Spurgin.
"These lectures demonstrate how to read fiction carefully for full enjoyment. The lectures begin with basic concepts from simpler stories before progressing into books famous for their complexity. The lectures explain literary devices such as irony and foreshadowing and show how skilled authors have used such devices to great effect in classic works of literature." -- P. [4] of guidebook cover.
Record details
- Physical Description: 6 cassettes : analog Dolby processed ; + 1 guidebook
- Publisher: Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company , c2009.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "Literature and English Language."Books contains lecture transcripts and course guide, timeline, glossary, biographical notes, bibliography; credits.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Part II. Cassettes Lecture 13 : Chapters, patterns, and rhythms ; Lecture 14 : Scene and summary, showing and telling -- Disc 8. Lecture 15 : Subtexts, motives, and secrets -- Lecture 16 : Dialogue --- The good, the bad, the ugly -- Disc 9. Lecture 17 : Metafiction---fiction about fiction -- Lecture 18 : Adaptation --- from fiction to film -- Disc 10. Lecture 19 : Realism times four ; Lecture 20 : Thumbs up?---interpretation and evaluation -- Disc 11. Lecture 21 : A long story short ---"Runaway" -- Lecture 22 : A classic novel---The age of innocence -- Disc 12. Lecture 23 : A baggy monster --- War and Peace -- Lecture 24 : Picking up the tools.
- Participant or Performer Note:
- Lecturer Timothy Spurgin is an Assoociate Professor of English and Bonnie Glidden Buchanan Professor of English Literature at Lawrence University.
- System Details Note:
- Audio Tapes.
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