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Understanding Literature and Life: Drama, Poetry and Narrative Arnold Weinstein

Release: , Language: English, Status: Official
Format: Digital Media, Tracks: 64, Length: ?:??, Barcode: [none]
Release type: Other - Spokenword

Contents

Digital Media #1
1 Why Literature — Civilization and Its Discontents ?:??
2 Oedipus the King and the Nature of Greek Tragedy ?:??
3 Fate and Free Will — Reading the Signs in Oedipus ?:??
4 Self-Making vs. Self-Discovery in Oedipus ?:??
5 The Interpretive Afterlife of Oedipus ?:??
6 Shakespeare's Othello — Tragedy of Marriage and State ?:??
7 Poison in the Ear, or the Dismantling of Othello ?:??
8 Rethinking Othello — Race, Gender and Subjectivity ?:??
9 French Theater and Moliere's Comedy of Vices ?:??
10 Tartuffe and Varieties of Imposture ?:??
11 Religious Hypocrisy — Beyond Comedy ?:??
12 Georg Büchner — Physician, Revolutionary, Playwright ?:??
13 Woyzeck the Proletarian Murderer — "Unaccommodated Man" ?:??
14 Woyzeck and Visionary Theater ?:??
15 Strindberg's Father — Patriarchy in Trouble ?:??
16 Marriage — Theatrical Agon or Darwinian Struggle? ?:??
17 The Father — From Theater of Power to Power of Theater ?:??
18 Beckett's Godot — Chaplinesque or Post-Nuclear? ?:??
19 Beckett and the Comedy of Undoing ?:??
20 Godot Absent — Didi and Gogo Present ?:??
21 Study of Literature — Approaches, Encounters, Departures ?:??
22 Shakespeare's Sonnets — The Glory of Poetry ?:??
23 The Shape of Love and Death in Shakespeare's Sonnets ?:??
24 Innocence and Experience in William Blake ?:??
25 Blakean Fables of Desire ?:??
26 Blake — Visionary Poet ?:??
27 Whitman and the Making of an American Bard ?:??
28 "Myself" as Whitman's Nineteenth-Century American Hero ?:??
29 Form and Flux, Openness and Anxiety in Whitman's Poetry ?:??
30 Emily Dickinson — The Prophetic Voice From the Margins ?:??
31 Dickinson and the Poetry of Consciousness ?:??
32 Dickinson — Death and Beyond ?:??
33 Baudelaire — The Setting of the Romantic Sun ?:??
34 Baudelaire's Poetry of Modernism and Metropolis ?:??
35 Robert Frost — The Wisdom of the People ?:??
36 Frost — The Darker View ?:??
37 Wallace Stevens and the Modernist Movement ?:??
38 Stevens and the Post-Romantic Imagination ?:??
39 Adrienne Rich and the Poetry of Protest ?:??
40 Rich's Project — Diving Into the Wreck of Western Culture ?:??
41 The Lives of the Word — Reading Today ?:??
42 Chretien de Troyes' Yvain — Growing Up in the Middle Ages ?:??
43 Yvain's Theme — Ignorant Armies Clash by Night ?:??
44 The Picaresque Novel — Satire, Filth and Hustling ?:??
45 Francisco Quevedo's Swindler — The Word on the Street ?:??
46 Daniel Defoe's Plain Style and the New World Order ?:??
47 Moll Flanders and the Self-Made Woman ?:??
48 Matter and Spirit in Defoe ?:??
49 Dickens — The Novel as Moral Institution ?:??
50 Pip's Progress — From Blacksmith to Snob and Back ?:??
51 Riddles of Identity in Great Expectations ?:??
52 Charlotte Brontë and the Bildungsroman ?:??
53 Jane Eyre — Victorian Bad Girl Makes Good ?:??
54 The Madwoman in the Attic — 19th Century Bills Coming Due ?:??
55 Melville's "Bartleby" and the Genesis of Character ?:??
56 "Bartleby" — Christ on Wall Street? ?:??
57 Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis" — Sacrifice or Power Game? ?:??
58 Kafka's "In the Penal Colony" — The Writing Machine ?:??
59 Faulkner's "The Bear" — Stories of White and Black ?:??
60 "The Bear" — American Myth or American History? ?:??
61 Tracking the Bear, or Learning to Read ?:??
62 Alice Walker's Celie — The Untold Story ?:??
63 Ideology as Vision in the Color Purple ?:??
64 Reconceiving Center and Margin ?:??