Grant L Voth
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The two gentlemen of Verona: A study guide for the Shakespeare plays (The Shakespeare plays) (1984) 1 Exemplar
Down and Out in Paris and London 1 Exemplar
A Skeptic’s Way ; Gogol’s Dead Souls 1 Exemplar
The Monomyths of Rank and Campbell 1 Exemplar
Rushdie’s “Haroun and the Sea of Stories” 1 Exemplar
Borges’ “Labyrinths” 1 Exemplar
Beckett’s Plays 1 Exemplar
Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” 1 Exemplar
Naguib Mahfouz’s “ Cairo Trilogy” 1 Exemplar
Kawabata Yasunari’s “Snow Country” 1 Exemplar
Faulkner - Two Stories and a Novel 1 Exemplar
Warren’s All the King’s Men 1 Exemplar
Anna Akhmatova’s “Requiem” 1 Exemplar
Brecht’s “The Good Woman of Setzuan” 1 Exemplar
Pirandello’s “Six Characters” 1 Exemplar
Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” 1 Exemplar
Joyce’s “Dubliners” 1 Exemplar
Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past” 1 Exemplar
Higuchi Ichiyo’s “Child’s Play” 1 Exemplar
Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street 1 Exemplar
Zusak's The Book Thief 1 Exemplar
Kushner’s Angels in America 1 Exemplar
McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe 1 Exemplar
Basho, The Narrow Road of the Interior 1 Exemplar
Munro, Short Story Selections 1 Exemplar
Jataka, Story Selections 1 Exemplar
Satrapi, “Persepolis” 1 Exemplar
Hersey, “Hiroshima” 1 Exemplar
Chopin, "The Awakening" 1 Exemplar
Melville, "Billy Budd" 1 Exemplar
Chekhov, Short Stories 1 Exemplar
Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem 1 Exemplar
Lu Xun, Short Story Selections 1 Exemplar
Cather, "Alexander's Bridge" 1 Exemplar
Skeptics and Tigers : Martel's Life of Pi 1 Exemplar
Moore and Gibbons's Watchmen 1 Exemplar
Le Carre's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 1 Exemplar
James's Death of an Expert Witness 1 Exemplar
Ibsen and Chekhov - Realist Drama 1 Exemplar
Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita 1 Exemplar
Ravindranath Tagore’s Stories and Poems 1 Exemplar
Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary” 1 Exemplar
Dickinson’s Poetry 1 Exemplar
Stories and Storytellers 1 Exemplar
Virgil’s “Aeneid” 1 Exemplar
Greek Tragedy 1 Exemplar
Classical Chinese Literature 1 Exemplar
Homer’s “Odyssey” 1 Exemplar
Homer’s “Iliad” 1 Exemplar
The Hebrew Bible 1 Exemplar
The “Epic of Gilgamesh” 1 Exemplar
The History of World Literature, Part 1 1 Exemplar
The New Testament 1 Exemplar
Great Mythologies of the World 1 Exemplar
Five Shakespeare Plays, Study Guide 1 Exemplar
The Titans in Greek Mythology 1 Exemplar
Bhagavad Gita 1 Exemplar
“Beowulf” 1 Exemplar
Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” 1 Exemplar
Cervantes’ “Don Quixote” 1 Exemplar
Dostoevsky’s “Notes from Underground” 1 Exemplar
Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A study guide for the Shakespeare plays (The Shakespeare plays) (1984) 1 Exemplar
Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin” 1 Exemplar
Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights” 1 Exemplar
Goethe’s “Faust” 1 Exemplar
Cao Xueqin’s “The Story of the Stone” 1 Exemplar
Voltaire’s “Candide” 1 Exemplar
Moliere’s Plays 1 Exemplar
Shakespeare 1 Exemplar
Indian Stories 1 Exemplar
The “Heptameron” 1 Exemplar
Wu-Ch’eng-en’s “Monkey” 1 Exemplar
“1001 Nights” 1 Exemplar
Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” 1 Exemplar
“Inferno” from “The Divine Comedy” 1 Exemplar
“The Tale of Genji” 1 Exemplar
Early Japanese Poetry 1 Exemplar
T’ang Poetry 1 Exemplar
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress 1 Exemplar
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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… (mehr)