A Day's Read

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Call Number: BOCD 809 We Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Compact discs.
"Literature and Language ; World Literature."
Book contains lecture transcripts and course guide, credits, timeline, biographical notes, and bibliography.
Lectures 1-12. Kafka, "A country doctor" -- Prévost, Manon Lescaut -- Flaubert, "A simple heart" -- Faulkner, "Pantaloon in black" -- Borges, Short story selections -- Hemingway, "The old man and the sea" -- O'Connor, Short story selections -- Lagerkvist, The Sybil -- Vesaas, The Ice Palace -- Calvino, Invisible Cities -- Duras, The Lover -- Coetzee, Disgrace.
Lectures 13-24. Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea -- Austen, Lady Susan -- Balzac, The Girl with the Golden Eyes -- Meredith, Modern Love -- Huysmans, Against the Grain -- Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray -- James, The Beast in the Jungle -- Joyce, "The dead" -- Proust, The Lemoine Affair -- Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street" -- McEwan, On Chesil Beach.
Lectures 25-36. Cather, Alexander's Bridge -- Lu Xun, Short Story Selections -- Chopin, The Awakening -- Melville, Billy Budd -- McCullers, Ballad of the Sad Cafe -- Chekhov, Short Story Selections -- Hersey, Hiroshima -- Satrapi, Persepolis -- Jataka Story Selections -- Munro, Short Story Selections -- Basho, The Narrow Road of the Interior -- Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress.
Dr. Arnold Weinstein is the Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. Dr. Emily Allen is Associate Professor of English at Purdue University. Dr. Grant L. Voth is Professor Emeritus at Monterey Peninsula College in California.
"Join three literary scholars and award-winning professors as they introduce you to dozens of short masterpieces that you can finish--and engage with--in a day or less with A Day's Read. Professor Arnold Weinstein of Brown University and Professor Grant L. Voth of Monterey Peninsula College--two of our most popular literature professors--are joined by award-winning Professor Emily Allen of Purdue University. Together, all three offer you their unique scholarly perspectives on short books from across time and around the world" --From publisher's website.

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