Grant L Voth
Auteur van Great Mythologies of the World
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Down and Out in Paris and London 1 exemplaar
A Skeptic’s Way ; Gogol’s Dead Souls 1 exemplaar
The Monomyths of Rank and Campbell 1 exemplaar
Rushdie’s “Haroun and the Sea of Stories” 1 exemplaar
Borges’ “Labyrinths” 1 exemplaar
Beckett’s Plays 1 exemplaar
Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” 1 exemplaar
Naguib Mahfouz’s “ Cairo Trilogy” 1 exemplaar
Faulkner - Two Stories and a Novel 1 exemplaar
The two gentlemen of Verona: A study guide for the Shakespeare plays (The Shakespeare plays) (1984) 1 exemplaar
Kawabata Yasunari’s “Snow Country” 1 exemplaar
Warren’s All the King’s Men 1 exemplaar
Anna Akhmatova’s “Requiem” 1 exemplaar
Brecht’s “The Good Woman of Setzuan” 1 exemplaar
Pirandello’s “Six Characters” 1 exemplaar
Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” 1 exemplaar
Joyce’s “Dubliners” 1 exemplaar
Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past” 1 exemplaar
Higuchi Ichiyo’s “Child’s Play” 1 exemplaar
Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street 1 exemplaar
Zusak's The Book Thief 1 exemplaar
Kushner’s Angels in America 1 exemplaar
McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe 1 exemplaar
Basho, The Narrow Road of the Interior 1 exemplaar
Munro, Short Story Selections 1 exemplaar
Jataka, Story Selections 1 exemplaar
Satrapi, “Persepolis” 1 exemplaar
Hersey, “Hiroshima” 1 exemplaar
Chopin, "The Awakening" 1 exemplaar
Melville, "Billy Budd" 1 exemplaar
Chekhov, Short Stories 1 exemplaar
Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem 1 exemplaar
Lu Xun, Short Story Selections 1 exemplaar
Cather, "Alexander's Bridge" 1 exemplaar
Skeptics and Tigers : Martel's Life of Pi 1 exemplaar
Moore and Gibbons's Watchmen 1 exemplaar
Le Carre's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 1 exemplaar
James's Death of an Expert Witness 1 exemplaar
Ibsen and Chekhov - Realist Drama 1 exemplaar
Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita 1 exemplaar
Ravindranath Tagore’s Stories and Poems 1 exemplaar
Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary” 1 exemplaar
Dickinson’s Poetry 1 exemplaar
The “Epic of Gilgamesh” 1 exemplaar
Bhagavad Gita 1 exemplaar
Virgil’s “Aeneid” 1 exemplaar
Greek Tragedy 1 exemplaar
Classical Chinese Literature 1 exemplaar
Homer’s “Odyssey” 1 exemplaar
Homer’s “Iliad” 1 exemplaar
The Hebrew Bible 1 exemplaar
Stories and Storytellers 1 exemplaar
“Beowulf” 1 exemplaar
The History of World Literature, Part 1 1 exemplaar
Five Shakespeare Plays, Study Guide 1 exemplaar
The Titans in Greek Mythology 1 exemplaar
The New Testament 1 exemplaar
Indian Stories 1 exemplaar
Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” 1 exemplaar
Moliere’s Plays 1 exemplaar
Dostoevsky’s “Notes from Underground” 1 exemplaar
Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A study guide for the Shakespeare plays (The Shakespeare plays) (1984) 1 exemplaar
Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin” 1 exemplaar
Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights” 1 exemplaar
Goethe’s “Faust” 1 exemplaar
Cao Xueqin’s “The Story of the Stone” 1 exemplaar
Voltaire’s “Candide” 1 exemplaar
Cervantes’ “Don Quixote” 1 exemplaar
T’ang Poetry 1 exemplaar
Shakespeare 1 exemplaar
The “Heptameron” 1 exemplaar
Wu-Ch’eng-en’s “Monkey” 1 exemplaar
“1001 Nights” 1 exemplaar
Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” 1 exemplaar
“Inferno” from “The Divine Comedy” 1 exemplaar
“The Tale of Genji” 1 exemplaar
Early Japanese Poetry 1 exemplaar
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress 1 exemplaar
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Each of the 36 lectures focuses on a relatively short work of literature, one that can be read within one or a few sittings. The lectures introduce the works in the context of their authors, themes, nature, history, significance, and impact. The idea is that people with busy lives who lack the time to tackle larger works of literature by eminent writers of fiction can sample shorter works by such authors. Thus, readers not ready to try James Joyce's "Ulysses" will benefit from reading and learning about "The Dead", and those intimidated by Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying" can start with "Pantaloon in Black". The works presented span the 19th and 20th centuries, and include those from such authors as Austen, Melville, Kafka, Hemingway, Chopin, Wilde, Woolf, Proust, Munroe, and Stevenson, along with a few more modern authors.
I consider the series of lectures to be well- conceived and well- executed, and overall, a fine way to become acquainted with eminent authors and their works of literature. For several of the authors the particular short work selected offers an excellent introduction. For example, "Billy Budd" is a masterpiece of literature, and guided by the analysis of the lecturer (Gerald Voth), the new reader will likely be ready to try Melville's longer works (such as "Moby Dick"). Likewise, "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" is the most accessible and well-known of Stevenson's fiction, and a fine introduction to the new reader who has yet to experience "Treasure Island"
In some cases, the selection discussed will help the reader judge whether to continue with a given author's works. Notably, "A Country Doctor" is a good way to begin with work by Franz Kafka. Lecturer Arnold Weinstein helps guide the reader through strange imagery that would otherwise seem alien and off-putting. A reader who (despite Weinstein's analysis) finds the tale too confusing should probably stay away from "The Trial" or "The Castle".
In other cases, the selection analyzed is not typical of the author's other work. For example, Flaubert's "A Simple Heart" is (in my view) far less enjoyable than "Madame Bovary", and the quality of "Lady Susan" notwithstanding, I would recommend that it be read *after (not before) Jane Austen's novels. In still other cases, the short work selected is of lesser quality than an author's other work, a category in which I would include Hemingway's "Old Man and the Sea".
Likewise, one can question the omission of certain authors, my list of which would include Dickens, Forster, Maugham, Steinbeck, and Vonnegut. But tastes differ
Below is a list of the 36 works discussed, along with their authors.
1. Kafka, Country Doctor
2. Prevost, Manon Lescaut
3. Flaubert, A Simple Heart
4. Faulkner, Pantaloon in Black
5. Borges, Short Story Selections
6. Hemingway, Old Man & the Sea
7. O'Connor, Short Story Selections
8. Lagervist, The Sybil
9. Vesaas, The Ice Palace
10. Calvino, Invisible Cities
11. Duras, The Lover
12. Coetzee, Disgrace
13. Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
14. Austen, Lady Susan
15. Balzac, Girl with the Golden Eyes
16. Meredith, Modern Love
17. Huysmans Against the Grain
18. Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
19. Wilde, Portrait of Dorian Gray
20. Jame, Beast in the Jungle
21. Joyce, The Dead
22. Proust, Lemoin Affair
23. Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street
24. McEwan, On Chesil Beach
25. Cather, Alexander's Bridge
26. Lu Xun, Short Story Selections
27. Chopin, The Awakening
28. Melville, Billy Budd
29. McCullers, Ballad of the Sad Café
30. Chekhov, Short Story Selections
31. Hersey, Hiroshima
32. Satrapi, Persepolis
33. Jataka, Short Story Selections
34. Munro, Short Story Selections
35. Basho, Narrow Road of the Interior
36. Siljie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress… (meer)