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Masterpieces of short fiction [videorecording] / Michael Krasny. by Krasny, Michael, 1944- Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, c2008. Subjects Short story Description:  4 videodiscs : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 booklets (56, 63 p. ; 22 cm.). Contents:  Part 1 of 2: 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" -- 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". Part 2 of 2: 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 Marquez -- A new world fable-- Malamud's "The Jewbird" -- Baldwin's "Sonny's blues"-- a Harlem song -- 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? Summary:  "This course takes you on an exciting ride through an itinerary that 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 will also be brought in to enhance analysis and interpretation and to explore some of the ways we judge and evaluate short fiction" -- p. 1 [booklet 1]. Notes:  In two containers. DVD. Series:  Great courses (DVD) ISBN:  9781598034400 1598034405 Performers:  Professor Michael Krasny of San Francisco State University.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   LSC-Montgomery (mon) Circulating DVDs PN3373 .M37 2008 Book LSC Ready for WD Request Copy Add Copy to MyList LSC-Montgomery (mon) Circulating DVDs PN3373 .M37 2008 pt 1   Checked In Request Copy Add Copy to MyList LSC-Montgomery (mon) Circulating DVDs PN3373 .M37 2008 pt 2   LSC Ready for WD Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Tomball Library Circulating AV PN3373 .M37 2008 Book Checked In Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Tomball Library Circulating AV PN3373 .M37 2008 pt1   Checked In Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Tomball Library Circulating AV PN3373 .M37 2008 pt2   Checked In Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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