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Krasny, Michael, 1944-
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Short story.
Short story -- Technique.
Short story -- Appreciation.
Fiction -- History and criticism.
Fiction -- Technique.
Fiction -- Appreciation.
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Krasny, Michael, 1944-
Short story.
Short story -- Technique.
Short story -- Appreciation.
Fiction -- History and criticism.
Fiction -- Technique.
Fiction -- Appreciation.
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Masterpieces
of
short
fiction
[videorecording (DVD)] / Michael Krasny.
by
Krasny, Michael, 1944-
Teaching Co., c2008.
Call #:
DVD 809.31 K899m
Subjects
Short
story.
Short
story -- Technique.
Short
story -- Appreciation.
Fiction
-- History and criticism.
Fiction
-- Technique.
Fiction
-- Appreciation.
Series
Great courses (DVD)
Great courses (DVD). Literature & language. English literature.
ISBN:
9781598034400 (set)
Alternate title:
Great Courses.
Masterpieces
of
short
fiction
[videorecording (DVD)]
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)] /
Description:
4 videodiscs (12 hrs.) : digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 139 p. ; 19 cm.).
Notes:
"24 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture"--Container.
Book contains lecture transcripts and outlines, timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.
Home use only.
Contents:
Disc 1. Excavations: Poe's "The cask of Amontillado" -- Hawthorne's "Goodman Brown" and lost faith -- Under Gogol's "Overcoat" -- Maupassant's "The necklace": real and paste -- Chekhov, love, and "The lady with the dog" -- James in the art studio: "The real thing".
Disc 2. Epiphany and the modern in Joyce's "Araby" -- Babel's "My first goose": violent concision -- Male initiation: Hemingway's "The killers" -- Kafka's parable: "A hunger artist" -- Lawrence's blue-eyed "Rocking-horse winner" -- Female initiation: Mansfield's "Party".
Disc 3. Jackson's shocking vision in "The lottery" -- O'Connor's "A good man is hard to find" -- Paley on survival and "An interest in life" -- The "Enormous wings" of Garcia Márquez -- A new world fable: Malamud's "The Jewbird" -- Baldwin's "Sonny's blues": a Harlem song.
Disc 4. Updike's "A & P": the choice of gallantry -- Kingston's warrior myth: "No name woman" -- Atwood's "Happy endings" as metafiction -- Gordimer's "Moment before" apartheid fell -- Carver's "Cathedral": a story that levitates -- Why
short
fiction
masterpieces
?
Performers:
Lecturer, Professor Michael Krasny, San Francisco State University.
Summary:
These 24 half-hour lectures examines and samples 23 of the world's greatest
short
stories. The form of the genre, as well as the various ways in which it has evolved, is highlighted along the way with a display of the essential nuts and bolts of storytelling: plot, character, setting, style, point of view, and theme. A mix of critical approaches is brought in to enhance analysis and interpretation and to explore some of the ways we judge and evaluate
short
fiction
.
Genre:
Filmed lectures.
Educational films.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Teaching Company.
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1
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