The Giants of Irish Literature : Wilde, Yeats, Joyce and Beckett
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Lecture 1. Out of Ireland -- Lecture 2. Oscar Wilde: critic as artist, artist as critic -- Lecture 3. Oscar Wilde: social comedian -- Lecture 4. The life of Sebastian Melmoth -- Lecture 5. W.B. Yeats: from the Celtic twilight -- Lecture 6. W.B. Yeats: the national poet -- Lecture 7. W.B. Yeats: the triumph of failure -- Lecture 8. James Joyce: The Dublin winter -- Lecture 9. James Joyce: The European winter -- Lecture 10. James Joyce: The universal winter -- Lecture 11. Samuel Beckett: the absurdist -- Lecture 12. Beckett and the novel -- Lecture 13. Samuel Beckett: "Fail again. Fail better" -- Lecture 14. Tradition and its discontents.
Professor George O'Brien, lecturer.
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The Modern scholar.
PUBLISHED
Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, p2006.
Year Published: 2006
Description: 7 sound discs (7 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guide (72 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.)
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1419388819 (set)
1419388827 (course guide)
SUBJECTS
Yeats, W. B. -- 1865-1939 -- History and criticism.
Wilde, Oscar, -- 1854-1900 -- History and criticism.
Joyce, James, -- 1882-1941 -- History and criticism.
Beckett, Samuel, -- 1906-1989 -- History and criticism.
English literature -- History and criticism.
Irish literature -- History and criticism.