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The volume covers the major writers of the Beat Generation: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and Tom Wolfe. Included are chapters on 7 literary masterpieces: Go, On the Road, Dharma Bums, Howl and Other Poems, Naked Lunch, The First Third, and The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test. Each chapter provides a biography, a plot synopsis, a discussion of themes and style, study and discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading.
Included are chapters on: Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"; E.M. Forster's "Howards End"; James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"; D.H. Lawrence's "Women in Love"; T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Wasteland"; and, Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway". Each chapter provides biographical information; a plot summary; an analysis of themes, style, symbols, and characters; and a discussion of the work's historical and cultural contexts.
Timeless literary masterpieces--such as Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of
Notre-Dame (1831) and The Miserables (1862), Flaubert's Madame Bovary
(1857), and Camus' The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947)--have been
the subject of copious literary criticism since their publications.
This volume has been developed specifically to help students and
general readers reach a deeper understanding of eight French novels,
enabling them to develop a true appreciation for why the works have
been regarded as masterpieces. Lucid yet challenging literary analysis
focuses on plot and character development, themes, style, and
biographical and historical context.
Taught by Michael Krasny
San Francisco State University
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Imagine that, in one sitting, you could enter a world of imagination and witness the triumphs, tragedies, errors, and epiphanies that arise in the lives of ordinary and extraordinary people. Imagine that, in the time it takes to run an errand, you could gain remarkable insights about the true nature of humanity—its dark secrets and its saving graces. Imagine that, in the space of an hour, you could do this instead:
Visit a Harlem jazz club and hear the inspired improvisations of gifted bluesmen
Attend a glittering Parisian ball bedecked in borrowed jewels
Confront a dangerous criminal on a lonely backwoods road
Journey back to colonial America and encounter a coven of witches
This enlightening experience awaits you in Masterpieces of Short Fiction, a 24-lecture course that samples two centuries' worth of great short stories written by some of the acknowledged masters of the genre, including Anton Chekhov, D. H. Lawrence, Flannery O'Connor, Franz Kafka, and Ernest Hemingway.
24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture
