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20th Century American Fiction
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20th Century American Fiction 32 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture
Taught byArnold Weinstein
Brown University
Ph.D., Harvard University
These giants of literature are immediately recognizable to anyone who loves to read fiction and even to many who don’t. Now, thanks to this course from Brown University’s Professor Arnold Weinstein, you can develop fresh insight into these and eight other great American authors of the 20th century. Professor Weinstein sheds light not only on the sheer magnificence of these writers’ literary achievements but explores their uniquely American character as well.
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Soul and the city – Art, Literature and Urban Living
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Soul and the city – Art, Literature and Urban Living
(8 lectures, 45 minutes/lecture)
Course No. 484
Taught by Arnold Weinstein
Brown University
Ph.D., Harvard University

"A great city is, to be sure, the school for studying life." —Samuel Johnson
We spend our lives building in empty spaces. Out of nothing, we make something. We fashion jobs, relationships, structures, and meanings. Without these creations, we would live in a wasteland.
The Soul and the City: Art, Literature, and Urban Living is not a compendium of statistics on city life, a guidebook, or a historical look. This course focuses on complex artistic representations of city life from the 18th to the 20th century.
Brown University's Professor Weinstein (Ph.D., Harvard University) selects particular moments and cities to illustrate urban themes such as anonymity, orientation, and exchange. You visit St. Petersburg just before the Russian revolution, the industrial age in the novels of Charles Dickens, and the present global electronic era on the cinematic screen. Professor Weinstein serves as a literary theorist, cultural critic, and philosopher.
Portraits of humanity come through several great artists in a variety of mediums:
Painter Edvard Munch depicts the emptiness of urban living.
Poet Charles Baudelaire celebrates how crowds impact his imagination.
Author Daniel Defoe dramatizes the freedom the city offers people who want to change their identities.

 
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