The art of Reading. Part 1

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"Course no. 2198."
Lectures 1 - 24.
Lecture 1: Artful reading and everyday reading -- Lecture 2: Authors, real and implied -- Lecture 3: Narrators - Their voices and visions -- Lecture 4: Characters - Beyond the round and the flat -- Lecture 5 : Descriptions - People places and things -- Lecture 6 : Minimalists to maximalists to lyricists -- Lecture 7 : Explosive devices - irony and ambiguity -- Lecture 8 : Reading for the plot - five simple words -- Lecture 9 : Master plots - the stranger and the journey -- Lecture 10 : The game is afoot - Sherlock Homes -- Lecture 11: The plot thickens - Scott and Brontë -- Lecture 12 : The plot vanishes - Faulkner and Woolf.
Taught by Professor Timothy Spurgin, Lawrence University.
The ability to savor the sometimes hidden details and nuances in a novel is an art that can be taught. These lectures demonstrate how to read fiction carefully for full enjoyment. They begin with basic concepts from simpler stories before progressing into books famous for their complexity. Literary devices, such as irony and foreshadowing, are explained and show how skilled authors have used such devices to great effect in classic works of literature.
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